Raul Miller wrote: > > Joe Wreschnig wrote: > > > For someone to claim that data compiled into a program but not executed > > > is "mere aggregation" is nonsense. Is a program that prints the source > > > code to GNU ls (stored as a string constant in the program, not an > > > external file) a derivative of GNU ls? Of course it is. This is > > > *exactly* analogous to the situation with firmware. > > On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 01:48:08AM +0200, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > > Could you please explain how exactly the derivation works in this case? > > And please bring forward some more convincing arguments than "this is > > nonsense", "this is obvious", or some broken analogy. > > It's a compilation work.
Fine. The copyright for the compilation lies by the one who did the compilation. This is Linus Torvalds, I guess. Thiemo
