Richard Stallman wrote: > > You are focusing on the definition of "derived work", but that is not > > really the issue. Copyright also covers use of a work as part of a > > larger combined work.
On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 11:51:33AM +0200, Alexander Terekhov wrote: > Your silly claims like "If a.o is under the GPL and talks to b.o > which talks to c.o, the GPL covers all three files, if all three > are combined" are barred by the doctrine of copyright misuse and > the doctrine of first sale. That's not his claim. As I read it, his claim is that where a special set of symbols have been created for these specific programs to communicate and work together to achieve some design goal which is an explicit part of one or more of these programs, that's an indication that they are a part of some larger work. Obviously, however, the quoted paragraph doesn't really distinguish between these kinds of cases. -- Raul
