Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe
> > In other words: derivative works include "mere aggregation".
On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 11:57:29PM -0500, Michael Poole wrote:
> As a point of law, derivative works are not a superset of "mere
> aggregation" in the US, and I suspect not in other jursidictions. 17
> USC 101 requires that a derivative work be "recast, transformed, or
> adapted" from the original; the GPL's "mere aggregation" would be some
> subset of compilations, possibly the same subset as collective works.
Since the GPL explicitly doesn't put any restrictions on "mere
aggregation", I don't think this is a very important issue.
--
Raul
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