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Re: What happens to the GPL in FPGA & VLSI implementations?

From: drew Roberts <zotz AT 100jamz.com>
To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: What happens to the GPL in FPGA & VLSI implementations?
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 11:14:12 -0500

On Sunday 20 March 2005 10:16 am, Greg London wrote:
> drew Roberts said:
> > Not that I disagree with the analysis or the intention behind it...
> > but... binaries are a functional strin of 1s and 0s and yet aren't they
> > considered a copyrighted derivative of the copyrighted source they came
> > from.
> >
> > Is this just another special exception to the rules?
>
> No, because the string of 1's and 0's still REPRESENT something
> rather than being the THING-ITSELF.

So, a binary is not functional?

It is instead and artistic expression?

I want to understand this thinking both from a reasoned perspective and from
the "that's just what the law says" perspective.

all the best,

drew

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