Re: license questions.

[tb@becket.net (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)]

David Given <dg@cowlark.com> writes:

> [But you can still distribute your changes. A common way of getting
> round unpleasant licenses is to distribute a copy of the original,
> unmodified work, plus a patch file containing the changes --- all
> perfectly legal. That's one reason why Debian packages work the way they
> do.]

This is a much disputed point.  There are plenty of folks who are of
the opinion that patches *are* derivative works, and there is plenty
of good reason to think they may be right.