Re: DFSG4 and combined works [was: Anton's amendment]

[Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> wrote:

> Obviously any patch that is automatically generated in this way is a
> work based on A.  The license of A permits to use "patch files" for
> the purpose of modifying the sources of A at build time.  However the
> license of A doesn't explicitly permit us to use "patch files" or any
> other work based on A for the purpose of modifying the sources of
> another program, in our case B.

If the license forbids the use of modified code in other works, then
it's plainly not a free license.

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