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Re: using GPL api to be used in a properietary software
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Martin Dickopp |
Subject: |
Re: using GPL api to be used in a properietary software |
Date: |
Mon, 14 Mar 2005 16:08:05 +0100 |
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Alexander Terekhov <terekhov@web.de> writes:
> Suppose that preexisting material (both program and library) is in
> public domain by the time the program is run. So once again, who gets
> the copyright on that "derivative work" and what expression (as in
> literary works modulo AFC test) does it protect in that "derivative
> work"?
>
> ----
> The copyright in a compilation or derivative work extends only to
> the material contributed by the author of such work, as
> distinguished from the preexisting material employed in the work,
> and does not imply any exclusive right in the existing material.
> The copyright in such work is independent of, and does not affect
> or enlarge the scope duration ownership or subsistence of any
> copyright protection in the preexisting material.
> ----
The second paragraph pretty much answers the question in the first.
I have no idea what you're aiming at. If the works of A and B are
combined to form a derivative work by an entity C, and the act of
creating the derivative work is not creative enough to be copyrightable
(as in the case of running a dynamically linked program, for example),
then C gains no copyright of the derivative work. But at the same time,
A and B don't lose their copyrights of the derivative work.
Martin
- Re: using GPL api to be used in a properietary software, (continued)
- Re: using GPL api to be used in a properietary software, Martin Dickopp, 2005/03/14
- Re: using GPL api to be used in a properietary software, Martin Dickopp, 2005/03/14
- Re: using GPL api to be used in a properietary software, Alexander Terekhov, 2005/03/14
- Re: using GPL api to be used in a properietary software, Martin Dickopp, 2005/03/14
- Re: using GPL api to be used in a properietary software, Alexander Terekhov, 2005/03/14
- Re: using GPL api to be used in a properietary software, David Kastrup, 2005/03/14
- Re: using GPL api to be used in a properietary software, Alexander Terekhov, 2005/03/14
- Re: using GPL api to be used in a properietary software, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2005/03/14
- Re: using GPL api to be used in a properietary software, Martin Dickopp, 2005/03/14
- Re: using GPL api to be used in a properietary software, Alexander Terekhov, 2005/03/14
- Re: using GPL api to be used in a properietary software,
Martin Dickopp <=
- Re: using GPL api to be used in a properietary software, Alexander Terekhov, 2005/03/14
- Re: using GPL api to be used in a properietary software, David Kastrup, 2005/03/14
- Re: using GPL api to be used in a properietary software, Alexander Terekhov, 2005/03/14
- Re: using GPL api to be used in a properietary software, David Kastrup, 2005/03/14
- Re: using GPL api to be used in a properietary software, Martin Dickopp, 2005/03/14
- Re: using GPL api to be used in a properietary software, Martin Dickopp, 2005/03/14
- Re: using GPL api to be used in a properietary software, Alexander Terekhov, 2005/03/14
- Re: using GPL api to be used in a properietary software, David Kastrup, 2005/03/14
- Re: using GPL api to be used in a properietary software, Alexander Terekhov, 2005/03/14
- Re: using GPL api to be used in a properietary software, Stefaan A Eeckels, 2005/03/14