Re: What exactly is Derivative ?
Raul Miller wrote:
> > I don't think that Paul way even trying to imply that the author of
> > work A has any rights on the completely independent work B.
Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> In that case we were talking at cross angles, because I thought we
> were discussing exactly that point. (Trying to find the boundary of
> "completely independent", i.e. not derived from A). I agree with
> Marcus that the text of the GPL does not affect this, except where the
> GPL limits its own scope.
Ok, but this is fuzzy for the usual case where you're talking about
the copyright on an executable and some of the text (header files)
which was used to construct that executable was written by another author.
At least... that's what most of last week's discussion on this topic
focussed on.
--
Raul
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