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Re: [cc-licenses] Case study: Magnatune

From: Antoine <antoine AT pitrou.net>
To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] Case study: Magnatune
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 23:41:05 +0100

> For programmers, a good comparison would be source code and object
> code. If you compile Pascal source code for a program into an
> executable binary, that binary is not a derivative work of the source;
> it is another form of the same work.

Then, by your interpretation, anyone licensing a binary for distribution
could also distribute the source code if (s)he were to obtain it by any
means...

I'm not sure many people would agree.

Regards

Antoine.

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