Don Armstrong wrote:
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Gervase Markham wrote:Don Armstrong wrote:What about it? If the combination in question of the GPLed work and your work is a derived work, then the GPL covers the work as a whole.So is a WP a derived work of a dictionary? IMO, it's much harder to make this sort of judgement when you're mixing code and non-code.It's hard to make this judgement no matter what you're dealing with.
How would you make it in the case I outline?
There's nothing magical about non-programmatic langagues that makes copyright law not apply.
Indeed not. But there is something about the concepts of "linking" and other software-oriented words the licence uses which make the judgement significantly harder in this case than others.
How does the distinction between the GPL and the LGPL apply to a dictionary? Or are the two licences the same when you are talking about something that can't in any meaningful sense be "linked"?We're (or I am, at least) talking specifically about the GNU GPL here, not the LGPL.
Indeed - but I was saying "are you saying the GPL and LGPL are equivalent for this particular sort of work?"
Gerv