[MPlayer-users] Illegal binaries...

[lanzz at lanzz.org]

On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Alex Kloss wrote:

> > you mean binary packages would be illegal? sounds good ;)
> Binary packages doesn't contain speech (like comments, strings, etc...). As 
> such, their freedom isn't covered by the freedom of speech. Violating the 
> Digital Millenium Copyright Act, a binary would be illegal.

it has been argued that binary is just another form of source - just as source
is a recipe that has to be used with a compiler, the binary is a recipe that
has to be used with hardware :)