Re: Do I have to release the patch for a GPL software under GPL?

[David Kastrup]

Alexander Terekhov <terekhov@web.de> writes:

> Merijn de Weerd wrote:
> [...]
>> What the GPL says in section 2 is that if you combine your own
>> work with the GPL work, the GPL applies to the whole. That's
>> logical: such a combination is a derivative work. This paragraph
>> of text is my original work. The combination of my paragraphs
>> with the parts of your message that I cited above is a derivative
>> work of your message. 
>
> Not at all. It's a compilation.

You are confusing "compilation" in the literary (and legal) and in the
computer sense.  A compilation is a collection of independent works
only related by topic.  You can throw out parts and retain a
compilation.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum