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Re: cdrtools - GPL code with CDDL build system



On Sun, 19 Mar 2006, Måns Rullgård wrote:
> A work can't be derived from another work without including some
> piece of it

This is actually not the case; including output of a work (or
generated by a work) in another work can make that work a derivative
work of the first work.

> Is a printed book a derivative work of the manual for the printing
> press?

This is the wrong analogy. The right analogy is: Is a printed book a
derivative work of the typeface used in the printing press?


Don Armstrong

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When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I 
realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked
Him to forgive me.
 -- Emo Philips.

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