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Re: GPL and other licences
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David Kastrup |
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Re: GPL and other licences |
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Tue, 31 Jan 2006 14:27:57 +0100 |
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Alexander Terekhov <terekhov@web.de> writes:
> David Kastrup wrote:
>>
>> Alexander Terekhov <terekhov@web.de> writes:
>>
>> > Fung wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I am currently doing some research on open source licences and
>> >> while reading the GPL licence the following question arose:
>> >> Distributing a derivative work combined from software licensed
>> >> under [whatever]
>> >
>> > Combining software doesn't create a derivative work under copyright
>> > law. If anything, it creates a compilation, not a derivative work.
>>
>> Nonsense. "compilation" in copyright law and "compilation" in
>> computing are completely different things.
>
> Hey retard, I meant compilation as in copyright law. Once you've
> got a lawfully made copy of a "computer program" (a set of
> instructions... see the definition) in source code form, you can
> reproduce it in object code form (as an additional copy per 17 USC
> 117) using compilation process (as in computing), link it together
> with other stuff and run. It has nothing to do with "fair use".
>
> Furthermore, 17 USC 117 entitles the owner of a lawfully made copy
> (source code see above) to distribute additional copies (in object
> code form see above) "along with the copy from which such copies
> were prepared".
That must be why we have all those copyright violation lawsuits going
on.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
- GPL and other licences, Fung, 2006/01/31
- Re: GPL and other licences, Alexander Terekhov, 2006/01/31
- Re: GPL and other licences, David Kastrup, 2006/01/31
- Re: GPL and other licences, Alexander Terekhov, 2006/01/31
- Re: GPL and other licences,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: GPL and other licences, Alexander Terekhov, 2006/01/31
- Re: GPL and other licences, David Kastrup, 2006/01/31
- Re: GPL and other licences, Alexander Terekhov, 2006/01/31
- Re: GPL and other licences, David Kastrup, 2006/01/31
- Re: GPL and other licences, Alexander Terekhov, 2006/01/31
- Re: GPL and other licences, David Kastrup, 2006/01/31
- Re: GPL and other licences, Alexander Terekhov, 2006/01/31
Re: GPL and other licences, Barry Margolin, 2006/01/31