Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Additionally, the FSF >is not alone by claiming software isn't the same thing as >documentation; international agreements and most countries worldwide >make a distincion between how software and other copyrighted stuff is >protected by law.
You're muddling things. Software != "computer programs". I'm guessing many of the laws and treaties you refer to make a distinction between "computer programs" and other copyrighted things. How many of them refer specifically to "software", which is a broader category than "computer programs"? We can admit that there is a distinction between "computer programs" and "documentation", while still insisting that documentation on a disk or in memory is "software". -- Nathanael Nerode <neroden at gcc.gnu.org> http://home.twcny.rr.com/nerode/neroden/fdl.html
