Re: Question about licensing
Steve Greenland writes:
> Is 'system ("dpkg -command arg");' an "editorial elaboration"?
No. It's a reference (a concept that predates software). A work that
refers to another work is not a derivative of that other work.
> If I write a 10,000 word story that mentions the title of _The Deep Blue
> Goodbye_ 8 times, have I created a derivative work?
No, of course not.
> The whole concept of execution and active reference (by which I mean
> invocation of an external or internal subprogram, such as calling a
> library function) is totally foreign to the vast majority of copyright
> experts (jurists and lawyers).
The whole concept of execution and active reference has nothing to do with
copyright.
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