RE: [Open_Gaming] Proposed Change to License

[Ron Bedison]

On Sun, 21 May 2000, Brad Thompson wrote:
> I think the confusion is mostly illusionary.  While data files
> can be considered software, the GPL doesn't talk about
> software, it talks about programs.  It would be very hard to
> classify a PDF file as a program.

        Not really.  PDF files _are_ programs, designed to run in
an interpreted environment.  Their nature is descriptive, but
they do so in a manner best described as program code.

        Not that this diminishes your point.  The difference is
intent, and PDF files aren't "programs" in a way in which the
spirit of the GPL intends.

                                        Later,
                                        Ron

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