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by gpderetta 3696 days ago
An ABI is certainly not just an ordering of bytes at a specific offsets, no more than a text file is just a long string of bytes. There are very specific semantics assigned to those bytes.
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Yes, and those semantics are purely functional, lacking any form of expression, which copyright expressly excludes from protection. The only reason binaries are copyright-protected is because they are "derivative works" from the original copyright-protected program code.