DS> You will [not] find anything about DS> "larger programs" or linking in copyright law.
JdeBP> You will, however, find a definition of an JdeBP> "adaptation" of a computer program in JdeBP> section 21 of the U.K. Copyrights, JdeBP> Designs, and Patents Act (as amended). DS> I don't know enough about UK law to comment DS> in detail, but on the surface, it appears that this DS> has no effect. Linking is required in order to run DS> a work distributed as source code, so linking DS> would be permitted under that section and not DS> be considered an adaptation. No. What is required in order to run a work distributed as source code is _compiliation_, from source code to machine code. This falls within the CDPA's definition of "translation" for computer programs (right there in the very same section of the Act), which in turn is considered to be "adaptation" of that work. Whether linking, in order to adapt the object code to operate in conjunction with other object code, is further adaptation is not spelled out by the Act, but it should be clear that there's a case to be made that it is. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
