John Cowan wrote:
[...]
You can't compare property in physical things directly to its
copyright. If you replace the car by a detailed description of
it (#1), and incorporate into that a detailed description of the
gas pedal (#2) that has already been written, then #1 is indeed
a
Gream, Matthew wrote:
This is the case in the UK under the CDPA 1988, for both cases of copyright
assignment (s.90) and exclusive licenses (s.92): they must be in writing and
signed. Whether any interpretation, in light of other legal instruments or
case law, recognises digital signatures as
Each source file is tagged with a header naming him as copyright
followed by a GPL header. For anybody to submit a patch to the
original distribution, you agree that he gets copyright of it.
In most countries, an assignment of copyright has to be in
writing and on paper. So an e-mail
John Cowan wrote:
[...]
computer scientist (HINAL)
http://www.digital-law-online.com/lpdi1.0/treatise2.html
[...]
Added material is not itself a derivative work of the GPL'd
thing, obviously. A binary, however, which combines them into
a single object, probably is.
I don't think so. I
Gream, Matthew wrote:
That's Directive 96/9/EC. I do not think the sui generis
database protection can be applied to computer programs. There
has to be qualitatively and/or quantitatively a substantial
investment in either the obtaining, verification or presentation of
the contents (art.
Mahesh,
The nearest analogy from literature I can think of at the moment is X
being a grammar text book and Y my essay, which conforms to grammar
in that text book. Is my essay a derivative of the grammar book?
Example is too far-fetched. What if Y were a separate book
with extensive
Abe Kornelis scripsit:
The nearest analogy from literature I can think of at the moment is X
being a grammar text book and Y my essay, which conforms to grammar
in that text book. Is my essay a derivative of the grammar book?
Example is too far-fetched. What if Y were a separate book
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 10:24:55AM +0100, Arnoud Engelfriet wrote:
That's a realistic worry, although if all those people license
their code under GPL, they cannot revoke that license and stop
distribution of the program. A bigger issue is if in the future
the project wants to change the
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