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Re: Recommendation for a CL data structures library


From: RJack
Subject: Re: Recommendation for a CL data structures library
Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 16:12:16 -0000
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Hyman Rosen wrote:
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.

Do you make this stuff up on the fly or do you sit around and dream
about it first?

Sincerely,
RJack :0


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