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Re: Recommendation for a CL data structures library


From: Hyman Rosen
Subject: Re: Recommendation for a CL data structures library
Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 16:12:12 -0000
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On 4/1/2010 9:06 AM, Alexander Terekhov wrote:
yes, I've been telling you all along that the GPL
doesn't cover non-GPL'd works included in compilations (aka collective
works, aka "mere aggregations" in GNU-speak).

You are wrong in every way. Permission from the rights holders
of components is is required in order to copy and distribute a
collective work which contains those components, and such a
collective work may or may not be "mere aggregation" as defined
by the GPL depending on the nature of the collective work.

You are very confused. Copyright law indeed does not require
permission from the rights holders of components in order to
create a collective work containing them if the collective
work is not a derivative work. However, copyright law does not
give the creator of the collective work the right to copy and
distribute the components without permission. For GPL-covered
works, the GPL uses the nature of the collective work to determine
how it may be copied and distributed.


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