On 5/11/05, Humberto Massa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That is your mistake: it's not the pages that carry protection, it's > the words and illustrations on the pages (as in abstract, > intelectual entities) that carry protection.
I thought copyright was protection for creative works in tangible form. You seem to be saying that copyright is protection for creative works in intangible form? > >In this situation, for the GPL to grant you license to make copies, > >you would have to rely on the GPL's grant to make verbatim copies > >of the program. If the transformations needed to build the program > >are not considered verbatim under Brazilian law, then the GPL fails > >to grant license to make copies in those cases. > > No, because of the principle that if you can do copies of the > source, and aggregate it with other stuff, then you can apply > automated transformations on it. He who can do more (copy the > source, redistribute), can do less (copy the binary, redistribute) > as long as the conditions are met. In other words, if a book publisher has permission to publish a story, the publisher also has permission to publish an arbitrary set of anthologies which contain that story -- no additional permissions are needed (at least with respect to that story)? Thanks, -- Raul
