* Marco d'Itri: > joss@debian.org wrote: > >>If the program cannot work without the database, that makes it a derived >>work. > Not true: > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0-faq.html#MereAggregation Huh? A comparable FSF position in this area is the claim that programs written in Emacs Lisp are a derivative work of Emacs.