My talk at FOSSY was basically: if we had a magic box that you could put a binary into and it could explain it to you, and it could make whatever modifications to that binary you wanted, and it could launder that binary into an equivalent binary that wasn't a derivative work under copyright law so you could share it with others - would that magic box satisfy the free software definition without the need for source code, and does that change how we think about free software?
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My talk at FOSSY was basically: if we had a magic box that you could put a binary into and it could explain it to you, and it could make whatever modifications to that binary you wanted, and it could launder that binary into an equivalent binary that wasn't a derivative work under copyright law so you could share it with others - would that magic box satisfy the free software definition without…
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