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Re: Use of GPL'd code with proprietary programs


From: Rui Miguel Seabra
Subject: Re: Use of GPL'd code with proprietary programs
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 08:01:15 +0100

On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 01:06 +0200, Alexander Terekhov wrote:
> Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:
> [...]
> > > > So that A+B is the mere collection (aggregation) of two works and not a
> > > > single new work,
> > >
> > > And what's the difference?
> > 
> > The two live and fulfill their jobs 100% independently of the other.
> 
> As you've already been told several times, things like "life", 
> "fulfillment of jobs" (heck, just think of bugs) and 
> "independence" are all beyond the scope of copyright law (I 
> mean the definition of "derivative work" under it). They 
> aren't even mentioned in the GPL. So, try again.

No. Half is not a book.

Rui

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