Re: Licensing question about the BSD

2005-08-05 Thread Bruce Lewis
Alexander Terekhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yeah, I should have said that copyright doesn't establish exclusive right to designed to fit. Ok now? Just from your words: To fit is one definition of adapt. Adaptation is one form of derivative work. Derivative work is an exclusive right of

Re: Licensing question about the BSD

2005-08-05 Thread Alexander Terekhov
Bruce Lewis wrote: [...] Furthermore, software that builds on but does not modify other software could be described by any of the three verbs in or any other form in which a work may be recast, transformed, or adapted. Copyright protects software as literary works. Things like builds on are

Re: Licensing question about the BSD

2005-08-05 Thread Bruce Lewis
Alexander Terekhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Heck. Boy scouts. Hey boy, try thinking of real software derivatives like human translations from one programming language to the other with the same set of protected elements in both original work and derivative work (which falls under

Re: Licensing question about the BSD

2005-08-05 Thread Alexander Terekhov
Bruce Lewis wrote: Alexander Terekhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Heck. Boy scouts. Hey boy, try thinking of real software derivatives like human translations from one programming language to the other with the same set of protected elements in both original work and derivative work

Re: Licensing question about the BSD

2005-08-05 Thread Bruce Lewis
Alexander Terekhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bruce Lewis wrote: [...] Furthermore, software that builds on but does not modify other software could be described by any of the three verbs in or any other form in which a work may be recast, transformed, or adapted. Copyright protects

Re: Licensing question about the BSD

2005-08-05 Thread Alexander Terekhov
Bruce Lewis wrote: [...] Now you are citing someone who says Such innovations rarely will constitute infringing derivative works under the Copyright Act. Someone == United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Rarely implies it is possible. That mild and polite wording doesn't subvert

Re: Licensing question about the BSD

2005-08-05 Thread Bruce Lewis
Alexander Terekhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You must be reading something that isn't there. The independent status of the new copyright with respect to preexisting copyright(s) in the sense that it does not affect or enlarge the scope, duration, ownership, or subsistence of, any copyright

Re: Licensing question about the BSD

2005-08-05 Thread Alexander Terekhov
Bruce Lewis wrote: Alexander Terekhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You must be reading something that isn't there. The independent status of the new copyright with respect to preexisting copyright(s) in the sense that it does not affect or enlarge the scope, duration, ownership, or

Re: Licensing question about the BSD

2005-08-05 Thread Isaac
On 05 Aug 2005 09:04:01 -0400, Bruce Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexander Terekhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yeah, I should have said that copyright doesn't establish exclusive right to designed to fit. Ok now? Just from your words: To fit is one definition of adapt. Adaptation is