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							|  | @ -862,21 +862,21 @@ truly GPL'ed. | |||
| Software is a strange beast when compared to other copyrightable works. | ||||
| It is currently impossible to make a film or a book that can be truly | ||||
| obscured.  Ultimately, the full text of a novel must presented to the | ||||
| reader as words in some human-readable langauge so that they can enjoy the | ||||
| work.  A film, even one directed by David Lynch, must be perceptable by | ||||
| reader as words in some human-readable language so that they can enjoy the | ||||
| work.  A film, even one directed by David Lynch, must be perceptible by | ||||
| human eyes and ears to have any value. | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| Software is not so.  While the source code, the human-readible | ||||
| Software is not so.  While the source code, the human-readable | ||||
| representation of software is of keen interest to programmers, users and | ||||
| programmers alike cannot make the proper use of software in that | ||||
| human-readible form.  Binary code --- the ones and zeros that the computer | ||||
| can understand --- must be producable and attainable for the software to | ||||
| human-readable form.  Binary code --- the ones and zeros that the computer | ||||
| can understand --- must be predicable and attainable for the software to | ||||
| be fully useful.  Without the binaries, be they in object or executable | ||||
| form, the software serves only the diadactic purposes of computer science. | ||||
| form, the software serves only the didactic purposes of computer science. | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| Under copyright law, binary representations of the software are simply | ||||
| derivative works of the source code.  Applying a systematic process (i.e., | ||||
| ``compilation'') to a work of source code yeilds binary code.  The binary | ||||
| ``compilation'') to a work of source code yields binary code.  The binary | ||||
| code is now a new work of expression fixed in the tangible medium of | ||||
| electronic file storage. | ||||
| 
 | ||||
|  | @ -894,7 +894,7 @@ of \S\S 1--2, so all the material previously discussed applies here. | |||
| However, \S 3 must go a bit further.  Access to the software's source code | ||||
| is an incontestable prerequisite for the exercise of the fundamental | ||||
| freedoms to modify and improve the software.  Making even the most trivial | ||||
| changes to a software program at the binary level is effecitvely | ||||
| changes to a software program at the binary level is effectively | ||||
| impossible.  \S 3 must ensure that the binaries are never distributed | ||||
| without the source code, so that these freedoms are ensured to be passed | ||||
| along the distribution chain. | ||||
|  | @ -1194,8 +1194,22 @@ software. | |||
| 
 | ||||
| In essence, \S 7 is a verbosely worded way of saying for non-copyright | ||||
| systems what \S 6 says for copyright.  If there exists any reason that a | ||||
| distributor knows of that would prohibit those who would later receive | ||||
| the software from the distribution | ||||
| distributor knows of that would prohibit later licensees from exercising | ||||
| their full rights under GPL, then distribution is prohibited. | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| Originally, this was designed as the title of this section suggests --- as | ||||
| a last ditch effort to make sure that freedom was upheld.  However, in | ||||
| modern times, it has come to give much more.  Now that the body of GPL'ed | ||||
| software is so large, patent holders who would want to be distributors of | ||||
| GPL'ed software have a tough choice.  They must choose between avoiding | ||||
| distribution of GPL'ed software that exercises the teachings of their | ||||
| patents, or grant a royalty-free, irrevocable, non-exclusive license to | ||||
| those patents.  Many companies, including IBM, the largest patent holder | ||||
| in the world, have chosen the latter. | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| Thus, \S 7 is rarely gives software death by stopping its distribution. | ||||
| Instead, it is inspiring patent holders to share their patents in the same | ||||
| freedom-defending way that they share their copyrighted works. | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| \section{GPL \S 8: Finding Freedonia} | ||||
| \label{GPLs8} | ||||
|  |  | |||
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