Re: Is database schema covered by the GPL?

[Rjack]

Hyman Rosen wrote:
> Rjack wrote:
> > Perhaps the definitions of "mere aggregation" and "combined work"
> > can be compared and contrasted.
>
> In a "mere aggregation" separate files are placed on the same
> storage medium. In a combined work, separate files are combined
> into a single integrated work, typically represented as a single
> file, where the so combined components function together.

Are you perhaps claiming it forms a collective work?

17 USC 101 Definitions:

A “collective work” is a work, such as a periodical issue, 
anthology, or encyclopedia, in which a number of contributions, 
constituting separate and independent works in themselves, are 
assembled into a collective whole.

A “compilation” is a work formed by the collection and assembling of 
preexisting materials or of data that are selected, coordinated, or 
arranged in such a way that the resulting work as a whole 
constitutes an original work of authorship. The term “compilation” 
includes collective works.
>

> > It sounds like blind men are describing an elephant. When 
> > describing a legal document, definitions are of great
> > importance.
>
> There is no confusion whatsoever, except among those who seek to 
> deliberately sow it.