Rudolf Polzer <divver...@alientrap.org> writes: > You can perfectly replicate a program by copying its source code. > > You cannot replicate the sound of spoken words by speaking the same > words.
That's not comparing like with like, as I believe has been pointed out several times in this thread. The source code for the program, represented as software (digitally-encoded information), is the preferred form of the work for making modifications to that work. The sound of spoken words, represented as software, is the digital recording of that sound. > If you want to define source code as "whatever is needed for > replicating the output, in a form that can be edited", then spoken > voice has no such thing. Yes, it does. The usual “preferred form of the work for making modifications to it”, borrowed from the wording of the GPL, applies just fine: The preferred form of a software work consisting of recorded voice would surely be the best available high-quality software recording of that work. -- \ “Odious ideas are not entitled to hide from criticism behind | `\ the human shield of their believers' feelings.” —Richard | _o__) Stallman | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87sk6tin5h....@benfinney.id.au
