Re: GPL and other licences

[Alexander Terekhov]

Lasse Reichstein Nielsen wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 11:10:50 +0100, Alexander Terekhov <terekhov@web.de>
> wrote:
> 
> > Copying at any level of abstraction as "black box" without any
> > modifications or transformations of protected expression in original
> > literary work (or part thereof) modulo the AFC test, and assembling
> > multiple works in "a whole" is compilation, not derivation.
> 
> So can you describe a situation where one program is a derivative
> of another?

Original:

  unsigned explosive_power = 0;
  while (still_not_eliminated("FSF"))
    send_a_bomb("FSF", explosive_power += 10/*kiloton*/); 

Derivative:

  unsigned explosive_power = 0;
  while (still_not_eliminated("FSF")) {
    fork(); 
    send_a_bomb("FSF", max((explosive_power += 10) + random(), 666)/*kiloton*/);
  }

regards,
alexander.