On 9/20/16, 3:34 AM, "Christofer Dutz" <christofer.d...@c-ware.de> wrote:
>I'm no lawyer, but even if you only copy+paste an If statement that's >actually a derivate work ... at least that's the way I understood it ... >please correct me if I'm wrong. > I am not a lawyer either, but my understanding is different. Let's say the Foo project is MIT licensed. If I take one if statement from that project's source and put it in a file that is otherwise entirely written by me, my understanding is that it does not make my file a derivative of the Foo project. It can then be thought of as a compilation [1]. We should give attribution to the Foo project as other written works do for quoting anything else, and the Foo project contributor who wrote that line of code still owns copyright to that line of code, and modifications of that line of code is under the MIT license, but that doesn't, IMO, mandate copying a header from their source file into our source file. And in fact, the MIT license in particular says that the license only needs to be "included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software". [1] http://digital-law-online.info/lpdi1.0/treatise6.html
