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Re: [ROFL] GCC's GPLv3 "Updated License Exception"
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Alan Mackenzie |
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Re: [ROFL] GCC's GPLv3 "Updated License Exception" |
Date: |
Thu, 5 Feb 2009 14:25:31 +0000 (UTC) |
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Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote:
> Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>> Note that the copyright of executable files is invariably held to be held
>> by those who have copyright of the source files, not those who wrote the
>> compiler.
> An interesting aside is that the source and executable forms of a
> computer program do not have separate copyrights. They are considered
> to be the same work for copyright purposes.
That sounds, .... er complicated! You mean, if you validly hold an
executable copy of a (non-free) program, and you "somehow" get hold of
the source for it, then you're entitled to keep that source code.
Are you sure, on this one? I mean, this doesn't apply to book
translation. If a publisher is authorised to publish an edition of a
book written in English, that wouldn't give him any rights to publish
somebody else's German translation.
Sorry, I can't work this out!
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
- Re: [ROFL] GCC's GPLv3 "Updated License Exception", (continued)
Re: [ROFL] GCC's GPLv3 "Updated License Exception", Alfred M. Szmidt, 2009/02/03
Re: [ROFL] GCC's GPLv3 "Updated License Exception", Alfred M. Szmidt, 2009/02/05
Re: [ROFL] GCC's GPLv3 "Updated License Exception", Alfred M. Szmidt, 2009/02/05
Re: [ROFL] GCC's GPLv3 "Updated License Exception", Alfred M. Szmidt, 2009/02/05
- Re: [ROFL] GCC's GPLv3 "Updated License Exception", Alan Mackenzie, 2009/02/05
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- Re: [ROFL] GCC's GPLv3 "Updated License Exception", Rjack, 2009/02/05
- Re: [ROFL] GCC's GPLv3 "Updated License Exception", Hyman Rosen, 2009/02/05
- Re: [ROFL] GCC's GPLv3 "Updated License Exception", Rjack, 2009/02/05
- Re: [ROFL] GCC's GPLv3 "Updated License Exception", Hyman Rosen, 2009/02/05
- Re: [ROFL] GCC's GPLv3 "Updated License Exception", Alexander Terekhov, 2009/02/05
- Re: [ROFL] GCC's GPLv3 "Updated License Exception", Hyman Rosen, 2009/02/05
- Re: [ROFL] GCC's GPLv3 "Updated License Exception", Alan Mackenzie, 2009/02/05