Re: Recommendation for a CL data structures library

[Alexander Terekhov]

Hyman Rosen wrote:
> 
> On 3/29/2010 10:02 AM, Alexander Terekhov wrote:
> > Stop moving the goalposts Hyman. You've been talking about collective
> > works aka compilations. How come that now it's called "a unified
> > program"? Don't you know that such a term is not defined in the GPL
> > and/or copyright law?
> 
> The "unified program" is an extension of a GPL-covered work or a

You must mean a derivative work of a GPL-covered work because the term
"extension" is also not defined in the GPL and/or copyright law.

> or a larger program ... 

Full stop once again for the same reason: the term "larger program" is
also not defined in the GPL and/or copyright law.

To repeat, snipping ambiguity/undefined terms it says just exactly what
the GFDL says (recall that under copyright law software is protected as
literary works modulo the AFC test):

"A compilation of the Document or its derivatives with other separate
and independent documents or works, in or on a volume of a storage or
distribution medium, is called an "aggregate" <snip "if" nonsense>. 
When the Document is included in an aggregate, this License does not 
apply to the other works in the aggregate which are not themselves 
derivative works of the Document. "

IOW, it's "mere aggegation" just like in the GPLv2, stupid.

> which has been formed by being combined with a GPL-
> covered work, just as the GPL describes.

<chuckles>

Stop moving the goalposts Hyman. Stop moving the goalposts. 

regards,
alexander.

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