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Re: GNU License, Again
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Alexander Terekhov |
Subject: |
Re: GNU License, Again |
Date: |
Tue, 29 May 2007 16:18:33 +0200 |
none Byron Jeff wrote:
[...]
> I did. Same opinion as the first time. The only differences are that SCO
> is arguing a contractual link. In addition they are arguing that
> 'licenses that covered all "methods" and "concepts" of operating
> systems' belongs to them.
Their claim regarding methods and concepts is about disclosures such
as "negative know-how" irrespective of embodiments (if any) in code.
[...]
> >> OTOH if you take a piece of GPL codebase and extend it, that's a whole
> >> different matter.
>
> >Yeah, even if an "extension" is 100% original work and doesn't contain
> >any protected elements from GPL'd work you purport it "extends"?
>
> If you write a 100% code fragment that does not operate without the GPL
> code base?
Whether it can or can not operate without some other code is totally
irrelevant. Software is protected as LITERARY work modulo AFC
filtering.
> How can that not be a derivative work?
Easy. It doesn't contain any protected elements from the GPL'd work.
Stop being utter cretin, none Byron Jeff.
regards,
alexander.
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