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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