Alexander Terekhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > David Kastrup wrote: >> >> Alexander Terekhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > Fung wrote: >> >> >> >> I am currently doing some research on open source licences and >> >> while reading the GPL licence the following question arose: >> >> Distributing a derivative work combined from software licensed >> >> under [whatever] >> > >> > Combining software doesn't create a derivative work under copyright >> > law. If anything, it creates a compilation, not a derivative work. >> >> Nonsense. "compilation" in copyright law and "compilation" in >> computing are completely different things. > > Hey retard, I meant compilation as in copyright law. Once you've > got a lawfully made copy of a "computer program" (a set of > instructions... see the definition) in source code form, you can > reproduce it in object code form (as an additional copy per 17 USC > 117) using compilation process (as in computing), link it together > with other stuff and run. It has nothing to do with "fair use". > > Furthermore, 17 USC 117 entitles the owner of a lawfully made copy > (source code see above) to distribute additional copies (in object > code form see above) "along with the copy from which such copies > were prepared".
That must be why we have all those copyright violation lawsuits going on. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ Gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
