Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

[Brian Thomas Sniffen <bts@alum.mit.edu>]

"Michael K. Edwards" <m.k.edwards@gmail.com> writes:

> [no longer relevant to debian-java, I think]
>
> On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 15:28:57 -0500, Brian Thomas Sniffen
> <bts@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> [snip]
>>  You are ignoring the
>> creative act performed by the programmer who arranged calls to
>> functions within libc.  That was creative effort on his part which
>> critically involves a copy of libc.
>
> As is the creation of a critical essay on libc.  But that's not a
> derivative work either.

But an annotated edition of libc is.  A program seems far more similar
to an annotated edition than to a critical essay -- since it includes
a copy of the library, after all, and pointers into it.

-Brian

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Brian Sniffen                                       bts@alum.mit.edu