[vntok]

Interesting.

From what I understand, copyright only applies to the original source code, GUI and bundled icon/sound/image files. Functionality etc. would fall under patent law. So the compiled code on your .ISO for example would not only be "just raw numbers" but uncopyrightable raw numbers.

[lolc]

Of course copyright applies to binaries too. It's long been established that compiled code is a derived work of its source.