Distributing those patches would be against the license. I'm looking for any indication that the set of people willing to a) download a patch;
and b) use tools to apply it on their own;
and c) build it;
and d) be unmoved about the ethical implications of the whole thing; is at all significantly larger than the set of people willing to open a hex editor to poke at some bytes for the same purpose.
> Huh, I started that premise and I'm continuing to argue it. You might be thrown off by HN's busted comment nesting.
I'm asking that your argument is internally consistent—that you're not trying to advance some thought, and the backtrack to a position where you advance another one that's at odds with the original. I don't see how this suggests that there's confusion about how to read threaded comments.