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Re: The worst that can happen to GPLed code
From: |
Stefaan A Eeckels |
Subject: |
Re: The worst that can happen to GPLed code |
Date: |
Thu, 17 Jun 2004 09:31:37 +0200 |
On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 01:47:26 +0200
Alexander Terekhov <terekhov@web.de> wrote:
>
> Stefaan A Eeckels wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 23:59:44 +0200
> > Alexander Terekhov <terekhov@web.de> wrote:
> >
> > > > That means, for example,
> > > > that your integrating one file from another program
> > > > in your code makes it a derivative work.
> > >
> > > Not on this planet.
> >
> > What, you can't do your work without copying from others?
>
> Aggregation != derivative work. Fortunately, there isn't
> exlcusive right to create aggregations.
No, but there is an exclusive right to control reproduction,
and as aggregation through the extraction of a single file
implies copying the file, and thus is reproduction, you still
can't do it. The sophistry of making a download from the FSF
servers for each copy of the aggregation you prepare will fly
like a lead balloon in court.
Plus, your copying a source file for use in your own program,
so that its functioning depends on the copied code, will in
all likelihood result in the combined source code being ruled
a derivative work, unlike when it would be merely referencing
a library.
It's all moot in any case, because extracting a file from
a tarball means making a copy - there's no way you can
rip files out of a tarball the way you rip pages out of a
book.
--
Stefaan
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- Re: The worst that can happen to GPLed code, (continued)
- Re: The worst that can happen to GPLed code, James White, 2004/06/29
- Re: The worst that can happen to GPLed code, Alexander Terekhov, 2004/06/29
- Re: The worst that can happen to GPLed code, Stefaan A Eeckels, 2004/06/29
- Re: The worst that can happen to GPLed code, Alexander Terekhov, 2004/06/29
- Re: The worst that can happen to GPLed code, Stefaan A Eeckels, 2004/06/29
- Re: The worst that can happen to GPLed code, Alexander Terekhov, 2004/06/29
- Re: The worst that can happen to GPLed code,
Stefaan A Eeckels <=
- Re: The worst that can happen to GPLed code, Alexander Terekhov, 2004/06/29
- Re: The worst that can happen to GPLed code, Martin Dickopp, 2004/06/29
- Re: The worst that can happen to GPLed code, Alexander Terekhov, 2004/06/29
- Re: The worst that can happen to GPLed code, David Kastrup, 2004/06/29
- Re: The worst that can happen to GPLed code, Alexander Terekhov, 2004/06/29
- Re: The worst that can happen to GPLed code, Alexander Terekhov, 2004/06/29
- Re: The worst that can happen to GPLed code, Martin Dickopp, 2004/06/29
- Re: The worst that can happen to GPLed code, Alexander Terekhov, 2004/06/29
- Re: The worst that can happen to GPLed code, Martin Dickopp, 2004/06/29
- Re: The worst that can happen to GPLed code, Alexander Terekhov, 2004/06/29