Alexander Terekhov scripsit: > To my uneducated understanding, that's similar to > > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0387954015 > > To me, this book is a "mere aggregation" of papers/works > with some "glue" (start up code, etc ;-) ). Aggregation > doesn't make this whole book [just like the executable] > a derivative work of its "components".
Indeed, it's plainly a collective work. > I tend to think > that executables are like Java JARs (JARs are simple > archives of java classes files and any other "data" > stuff). I just can't see how a copyright in one Java > class can affect other classes (even if something is > inherited/composed/linked with the other(s)). Presumably object code is a derivative of source code, however, and so a JAR file, while it is a collective work with respect to bytecode, is a collection of derivative works with respect to source code. Native executables aren't simply collections, however; linkers break up and redistribute the individual object files into different regions of the executable. -- There is / One art John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> No more / No less http://www.reutershealth.com To do / All things http://www.ccil.org/~cowan With art- / Lessness -- Piet Hein -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3