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From: | Rjack |
Subject: | Re: Is database schema covered by the GPL? |
Date: | Wed, 25 Mar 2009 10:33:46 -0400 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) |
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 greatimportance.There is no confusion whatsoever, except among those who seek to deliberately sow it.
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