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Re: Question about the GPL copyright notice and the statement ofcopying
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Alexander Terekhov |
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Re: Question about the GPL copyright notice and the statement ofcopying permission not being included in all the source files of a product. |
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Thu, 01 Jul 2004 10:37:52 +0200 |
Stefaan A Eeckels wrote:
[...]
> I mean, would you seriously argue that a book is a bundle of
> chapters, and that the fact there is no copyright notice on each
> chapter somehow changes its copyright status?
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0387954015
This book is a "mere aggregation" of papers/works with some "glue"
(start up code, etc ;-) ). Aggregation doesn't make this whole book
(just like an executable or a tarball) a derivative work of its
"components". Executables are like Java JARs (JARs are simple
archives of Java class files and any other "data" stuff). A
copyright in one Java class doesn't affect other classes (even if
something is inherited/composed/linked with the other(s)). Neither
static nor dynamic linking constitute creation of a derivative work.
Copyright protects software as literacy works (modulo AFC test).
Things like "in order to operate"/"whole program" are completely
irrelevant. Copyright law doesn't establish exclusive right to
"combine" works. FSF's theory of derivative works is total crap.
regards,
alexander.
- Re: Question about the GPL copyright notice and the statement of copying permission not being included in all the source files of a product., Carthik, 2004/07/01
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