On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 10:16:53 -0400 Raul Miller wrote:
> Consider, for example, building emacs against a third party supplied
> proprietary libc.
That would possibly require modifying Emacs source code and that's the
creative act (it would create a derivative work, no doubt about that).
OTOH, when you issue the classical
$ ./configure
$ make
commands, you are not performing any creative act.
Do you agree?
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