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Re: "Adobe Open Source License" GPL compatible?


From: Rui Miguel Seabra
Subject: Re: "Adobe Open Source License" GPL compatible?
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 10:23:37 +0100

On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 10:57 +0200, Alexander Terekhov wrote:
> First sale aside for a moment, GPL is a bare copyright license. When
> you merely "combine" works, you create compilations, not derivative
> works. The former is also known as "mere aggregation." Got it now?

Well, apart from the fact that there is no "combining" but combining,
one should take in account that while in combining you are just
combining, when you build upon an existing work (aka use a library)
you're making a derivate.

Rui

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