Re: GNU licenses

[Stefaan A Eeckels]

On Mon, 04 Sep 2006 11:03:18 +0200
Alexander Terekhov <terekhov@web.de> wrote:

> > As such, the author of the GPLed work has the right to require all
> > works that contain the GPLed work, or are derivative works of the
> > GPLed work, to be either not distributed, or distributed under the
> > GPL.
> 
> There's no need to muddy the water, Eeckels. Works that "contain the 
> GPLed work" are not "all" derivative works of the GPLed work. In
> fact, in most usual and frequent cases they are not.

Alex my mate, that's why I used "or":

"all works that contain the GPLed work, OR are derivative works of the
GPLed work,"

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Stefaan A Eeckels
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