On Mon, 30 May 2005 23:31:59 +0200, Alexander Terekhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > John Hasler wrote: >> >> Isaac writes: >> > Well, the copyright statute says that one of the exclusive rights of the >> > copyright holder is the *preparation* of derivative works. (See 17 USC >> > 106). You don't have to distribute or copy such works in order to >> > infringe. Creating a derivative work without is enough. It is not clear >> > to me that the literal words of 2(a) of the GPL do not apply to someone >> > who modifies code on his own system. >> >> I think that 17 USC 117 applies here. > > But not here. AFAIK, except bug fixing, the German law doesn't have > 17 USC 117 like exception for (private) software "Bearbeitungen" > (copyrightable derivative works) and "Umgestaltungen" (uncopyrightable
Are you sure? I thought the EU copyright directive required states to provide some 17 USC 117 protections. It would be a mistake to suggest that 17 USC 117 authorizes the general creation of derivative or collective works on ones own system. 17 USC 117 covers modifications required to run programs when one ones a copy. IMO that would include linking code to a library, but might not cover rewriting the library to add new functionality. Isaac _______________________________________________ Gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
