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That lets you decompile and likely publish a patch, not publish the complete derived source.

• mhh__ 5y ago
  Patch for what though? Is the ability to use a patch taken into account because a patch to clang on Linux and a patch to appleclang on Mac have very different interpretations
  • marcan_42 5y ago
    Binary patches exist; there are fairly reasonable arguments that distributing binary patches (in a format that does not significantly contain the original work, e.g. bsdiff) is at least fair use, or possibly not a copyright problem at all.
    • saagarjha 5y ago
      Could you make the argument (not here) that binary patches are not a reasonable way of distributing a patch for a program that is frequently updated?
      • worker767424 5y ago
        Doesn't the Chrome updater use binary patches? https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/software-updates-courgette https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/softwar...
    • worker767424 5y ago
      The patch, of course, is covered by a separate copyright.