> That's irrelevant. In any case, if you made money distributing it yourself 
> (say, selling postcards of the outdoor statue), the amount I could win 
> would seem easy to calculate.

Yes, zero, because you were giving it away for free in the first place.  If 
you had some evidence that at a certain point in time you would cease giving 
it away for free and start selling stuff then ok, you could probably claim 
some losses.  But without any evidence of that I don't see how you can claim 
some fictitious loss of earnings of whatever.

> How much is someone damaged if I take a GPL program that's freely 
> available without me having to agree to anything, I add features to it, 
> and I distribute the new executable without releasing the source?

Zero dollars.

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