Re: GPL traitor !

[Hyman Rosen]

Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> Does copyright law have any notion of "a complete program"?  ;-)

No. Copyright law has the notion of a collective work, which is
    <http://www.copyright.gov/title17/circ92.pdf>
    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 compiled binary consisting of libraries and object files linked
together into a single file is a collective work.