On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 08:04:40AM -0400, Michael Poole wrote:
> Andrew Suffield writes:
>
> > On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 02:42:35PM -0300, Humberto Massa Guimar?es wrote:
> >> Static linking can *not* create a derived work, because it is an
> >> automatic process. Poster case: is hello, generated from hello.c:
> >>
> >> #include <stdio.h>
> >> int main(int argc, char** argv) {
> >> printf("Hello\n");
> >> return 0;
> >> }
> >>
> >> a derivative work of something it's (statically) linked to?
> >> The answer is no, because derivative works, as intelligent
> >> transformations, can only appear when you *create* a work.
> >
> > This is a FAQ, or more precisely something that people frequently get
> > wrong. The derivative work was created when you wrote the source code
> > that needs to be statically linked. Myopically staring at the build
> > process does nothing to change this.
>
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