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Re: Question About GNU General Public License
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Rui Miguel Seabra |
Subject: |
Re: Question About GNU General Public License |
Date: |
Tue, 20 Jul 2004 13:28:27 +0100 |
On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 07:00 +0100, Graham Murray wrote:
> I would disagree. If there exists a machine which uses relays or
> pneumatic values or some other hardware mechanism which performs some
> function and someone writes a computer program which uses the same
> 'logic' to perform the same function that I am sure that the software
> is a derivative work of the hardware machine.
Your logic fails because software never makes anything else other than
calculus. It's hardware that actually does anything in the physical
realm, and you can't derivate imaterial works from material works. It is
impossible by definition.
Rui
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