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Re: Do I have to release the patch for a GPL software under GPL?
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Alfred M. Szmidt |
Subject: |
Re: Do I have to release the patch for a GPL software under GPL? |
Date: |
Sun, 14 May 2006 18:44:48 +0200 (CEST) |
> All of this is irrelevant. The instructions to crop a photo can
> be applied to millions of photos, your instructions on how to
> modify the program can only be applied to a single program to
> have a useful result. The instructions are the modifications in
> this case.
No, they are instructions and they do not actually *contain* all or
part of the preexisting work. If there is no trace of the
preexisting work, the instructions by definition cannot be a
derivative work.
The instructions on where to modify are the trace.
- Re: Do I have to release the patch for a GPL software under GPL?, (continued)
- Re: Do I have to release the patch for a GPL software under GPL?, Merijn de Weerd, 2006/05/13
- Re: Do I have to release the patch for a GPL software under GPL?, Alexander Terekhov, 2006/05/13
- Re: Do I have to release the patch for a GPL software under GPL?, Merijn de Weerd, 2006/05/14
- Re: Do I have to release the patch for a GPL software under GPL?, Alexander Terekhov, 2006/05/15
- Re: Do I have to release the patch for a GPL software under GPL?, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2006/05/14
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- Re: Do I have to release the patch for a GPL software under GPL?, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2006/05/14
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- Re: Do I have to release the patch for a GPL software under GPL?, Merijn de Weerd, 2006/05/14
- Re: Do I have to release the patch for a GPL software under GPL?, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2006/05/14
- Re: Do I have to release the patch for a GPL software under GPL?, Miles Bader, 2006/05/14
- Re: Do I have to release the patch for a GPL software under GPL?, Alexander Terekhov, 2006/05/13
- Re: Do I have to release the patch for a GPL software under GPL?, David Kastrup, 2006/05/13
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- Re: Do I have to release the patch for a GPL software under GPL?, Gordon Burditt, 2006/05/15
- Re: Do I have to release the patch for a GPL software under GPL?, Alexander Terekhov, 2006/05/15