On 3/17/06, Pierre Machard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > I read http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/05/msg00595.html
"the copyright holders give permission to link the code of portions of this program with the OpenSSL" Copyright holders just can't give such permission because it doesn't fall under exclusive rights reserved to copyright holders. Linking aside for a moment, regarding "real" derivative works (not FSF's absurd theory) see http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data2/circs/2nd/039303p.pdf My reading of it is that even under contractual restrictions, 17 USC 117 bars cause of action for copyright infringement when "the party exercises sufficient incidents of ownership over a copy of the program to be sensibly considered the owner of the copy for purposes of ยง 117(a)." regards, alexander.
