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Re: GPL 2(b) HUH?
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Hyman Rosen |
Subject: |
Re: GPL 2(b) HUH? |
Date: |
Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:50:32 -0400 |
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David Kastrup wrote:
All the library parts accomplish their intended purpose in the binary,
and compiling and linking their source transforms them into the binary.
Here is a quote from the Compendium II, which the U.S. Copyright Office
uses as a manual of procedure:
<http://ipmall.info/hosted_resources/CopyrightCompendium/chapter_0300.asp>
323 Derivative computer programs. A derivative computer program is
one that is based on or incorporates material from a previously
published or registered or public domain program that has been revised,
augmented, abridged, or otherwise modified so that the modifications,
as a whole, represent an original work of authorship.
The automated transformations involved in going from the source code of a
library to a binary executable are not "an original work of authorship".
In short: I read and understand your words and explanations, but they
don't seem to apply at all.
That is because you have an erroneous idea of what it means for a work to
be derivative in the eyes of copyright law. Perhaps it is because you do
not understand that the law sometimes uses English words in a technical
sense such that their conventional dictionary definitions do not apply.
In the everyday sense, one might say that a program which incorporates a
library is derivative of that library, but in the technical sense used by
copyright law, it is not.
- Re: GPL 2(b) HUH?, (continued)
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- Re: GPL 2(b) HUH?, Rahul Dhesi, 2008/09/20
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- Re: GPL 2(b) HUH?, Rahul Dhesi, 2008/09/20
- Re: GPL 2(b) HUH?, Rjack, 2008/09/20
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- Re: GPL 2(b) HUH?,
Hyman Rosen <=
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