Re: Packages, release notes, etc

[Alan Schmitt]

On 2015-09-11 04:12, "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> writes:

> Notice that what has been tested in court, is that a _translation_ is a
> derived work, and subject to the copyright of the original copyright
> holder.
>
> And this is something that I would love to see tested in court, if
> somebody took a GPL library written in, say lisp, translated it into
> say C, and tried to distribute it under a different licence.

This is coming frighteningly close to licenses covering algorithms.

Alan

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