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Originally Posted by HarryT
The actual phrase used in the licence is "Licensees may copy, distribute, display and perform only verbatim copies of the work, not derivative works based upon it." I suppose it's a question of whether a different format constitutes a "verbatim copy" or not. My gut feeling is that it doesn't - it's a file with different binary contents.
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In a dictionary definition, verbatim refers to words, not bits & bytes. One would presume a verbatim copy doesn't change the text, not how that text is stored on a disk. But, in this arena, people often make up their own definitions
