Re: Plugins, libraries, licenses and Debian
Anthony DeRobertis <asd@suespammers.org> writes:
> On Dec 14, 2003, at 22:18, Brian T. Sniffen wrote:
>>
>> For someone to later pair it with Emacs has no creativity, so that
>> packager hasn't earned a copyright, but the pairing is under copyright
>
> Yes, but if there is no copyright generated by the pairing, then it
> must be a 'mere aggregation.'
I didn't say there's no copyright generated by the pairing -- just
that the pairing can't be separated from the writing of the plugin.
The plugin author, in the course of writing and testing his plugin,
must have assembled the combination of host+plugin in a persistent
form.
-Brian
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