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Abusing the GPL?
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Unfortunately, it seems to me that there's a way to circumvent the "preferred form"...
You could make the gobbledygook to be your preferred source, by creating a completely proprietary, non-GPL development environment, which provides a mapping from gobbledygook to human readable code.
In this case, your "source" is the gobbledygook, and you just happen to use a weird IDE...
Nonetheless, it's immoral... but possibly not illegal.
theoretical example, i'm not familiar with the exact laws governing sale of marijuana in the netherlands, benelux countries, etc... but consumption and sales in certain places there are legal, i don't think it's far fetched to think of a local online delivery....
kiddy porn is pretty much illegal in every country, so let's pick another topic.. how about marijuana... legal in many european countries.
so the legal question is, let's suppose you sell weed online, to clients in the netherlands. but your servers are hosted in the US.. now which countries laws apply to your selling activity?
etc.etc..
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Unfortunately, it seems to me that there's a way to circumvent the "preferred form"...
You could make the gobbledygook to be your preferred source, by creating a completely proprietary, non-GPL development environment, which provides a mapping from gobbledygook to human readable code.
In this case, your "source" is the gobbledygook, and you just happen to use a weird IDE...
Nonetheless, it's immoral... but possibly not illegal.
theoretical example, i'm not familiar with the exact laws governing sale of marijuana in the netherlands, benelux countries, etc... but consumption and sales in certain places there are legal, i don't think it's far fetched to think of a local online delivery....
kiddy porn is pretty much illegal in every country, so let's pick another topic.. how about marijuana... legal in many european countries. so the legal question is, let's suppose you sell weed online, to clients in the netherlands. but your servers are hosted in the US.. now which countries laws apply to your selling activity? etc.etc..