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Re: GPL traitor !
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Alan Mackenzie |
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Re: GPL traitor ! |
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Thu, 14 May 2009 19:33:39 +0000 (UTC) |
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In gnu.misc.discuss Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote:
> Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> > Does copyright law have any notion of "a complete program"? ;-)
> No. Copyright law has the notion of a collective work, which is
> <http://www.copyright.gov/title17/circ92.pdf>
> a work, such as a periodical issue, anthology, or encyclopedia,
> in which a number of contributions, constituting separate and
> independent works in themselves, are assembled into a collective
> whole.
Ah, it's context-snipping time, is it? Let me put the context back
again for you:
[Hyman Rosen]:
>> "Mere aggregation" is the placing of multiple separate programs onto a
>> single medium for convenience in distribution. It is not the linking
>> together of multiple components into a single binary file to form a
>> complete program.
In the above paragraph, you have used the notion of a "complete program"
to distinguish it from a "mere aggregation". I agree with you here.
Yet a bit higher up, you answered "No" to the legal existence of a
"complete program".
You seem to be being inconsistent, here. Would you care to resolve this
inconsistency? Does copyright law recognise the concept of a "complete
program" or doesn't it, or is it a bit squidgy?
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
- Re: GPL traitor !, (continued)
- Re: GPL traitor !, Alan Mackenzie, 2009/05/14
- Re: GPL traitor !, Alexander Terekhov, 2009/05/14
- Re: GPL traitor !, Hyman Rosen, 2009/05/14
- Re: GPL traitor !, Joerg Schilling, 2009/05/15
- Re: GPL traitor !, Hyman Rosen, 2009/05/15
- Re: GPL traitor !, Joerg Schilling, 2009/05/15
- Re: GPL traitor !, Joerg Schilling, 2009/05/15
- Re: GPL traitor !, Hyman Rosen, 2009/05/14
- Re: GPL traitor !,
Alan Mackenzie <=
- Re: GPL traitor !, Hyman Rosen, 2009/05/14
- Re: GPL traitor !, Alan Mackenzie, 2009/05/14
- Re: GPL traitor !, Rjack, 2009/05/14
- Re: GPL traitor !, Hyman Rosen, 2009/05/14
- Re: GPL traitor !, Alan Mackenzie, 2009/05/15
- Re: GPL traitor !, Hyman Rosen, 2009/05/15
- Re: GPL traitor !, Joerg Schilling, 2009/05/15
- Re: GPL traitor !, Hyman Rosen, 2009/05/15
- Re: GPL traitor !, Joerg Schilling, 2009/05/15
- Re: GPL traitor !, Hyman Rosen, 2009/05/15