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Re: Is database schema covered by the GPL?


From: Hyman Rosen
Subject: Re: Is database schema covered by the GPL?
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:02:43 -0400
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Rjack wrote:
Are you perhaps claiming it forms a collective work?

Which it? The collection of separate files on a disk, or the program?

17 USC 101 Definitions:
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A “collective work” is 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.

A “compilation” is a work formed by the collection and assembling of preexisting materials or of data that are selected, coordinated, or arranged in such a way that the resulting work as a whole constitutes an original work of authorship. The term “compilation” includes collective works.

The collection of files on the disk is simply a collection of files,
because their assembly (generally) doesn't constitutes an original
work of authorship. The program is at least a collective work, and
requires extra permission because the contributed works are modified
in the process of being incorporated.


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