Previously vaidhy@wwdg.com wrote: > I am planning to right a book on Debian. If I read the Debian User's > Manual and add it to the list of references, is my book a derivative? Only if you do things like copy parts of the text to your book I think. The derivate-question itself has much more interesting examples. For example for which of the following examples is A a derivative of B? 1) program A, statically linked with a library B 2) program A, dynamically linker with a library B 3) program A, only using header-files from library B 4) program A, which can load library B on demand 5) program A, which cannot run without having package B installed 6) program A, which can only be installed using package B 7) manual A, which documents the behaviour of package B 8) program A, which is a wrapper for program B 9) program A, which runs program B to do implement some of its functionality 10) there is no 10, but it sounded like a nice number :) Wichert. -- ============================================================================== This combination of bytes forms a message written to you by Wichert Akkerman. E-Mail: wakkerma@cs.leidenuniv.nl WWW: http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~wichert/
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