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Re: Recommendation for a CL data structures library


From: Hyman Rosen
Subject: Re: Recommendation for a CL data structures library
Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 16:11:10 -0000
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On 3/25/2010 12:59 PM, Alexander Terekhov wrote:
Hyman, please stop ignoring the facts.

And in fact, "mere aggregation" means exactly what the FSF wants
it to mean, not more and not less, because "mere aggregation" is
not a term defined by copyright law but a term defined by a license,
and as such it is to the license that one must go to to see if some
combined work is a "mere aggregation" or not. It is clear from the
text of the GPL that a statically linked program is not a "mere
aggregation" of its components.

For example, if a document was licensed to be freely copyable
except that it must not be copied and distributed on a medium
together with instructions on how to make bombs, it would be
a reading of the license that determined whether it would be
permitted to copy and distribute it on a medium together with
instructions on how to make firecrackers. Copyright law would
have nothing to say on the matter - there is no definition of
"bomb" in copyright law, and there is no definition of "mere
aggregation" in copyright law.


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