"Alfred M. Szmidt" wrote: [...] > Ask yourself the following, and all your questions will be answered: > Does the patch work without the GPLed software? If it doesn't, then > it is clearly a deriviate work.
It may well be a "deriviate" work (whatever that means in the GNU Republic). But this "test" has absolutely nothing to do with the legal meaning of "derivative" regarding computer program works -- stuff protected under Berne Convention as literary works (and, under US case law, modulo the AFC test). regards, alexander. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
