Re: changes made/thanks (re hardware designs)

[Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>]

    I had been working with a different analogy: schematic layout corresponds
    to source, gerber file corresponds to binary, physical hardware corresponds
    to CD with executable program on it.

That analogy makes sense, and might be useful for some purposes.  But
it is not useful for copyright issues, because copyright does not
treat the two cases in analogous ways.  The CD with an executable
program is copyrightable and therefore is covered by copyright.  The
physical hardware is not.