In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alexander Terekhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tim Smith wrote: > [...] > > If, on the other hand, you mean that you might take the display code > > from the PDF reader, and put that code IN your program, so it is just a > > subroutine you call, then you are going to have to put your code under > > GPL. > > http://www.catb.org/~esr/Licensing-HOWTO.html > > <quote> > > consider the case of two scientific papers which reference each > other. The fact that paper B calls paper A (references it for > support) does not make B a derivative work of A. This remains > true whether B and A are published together in a symposium > (analogous to static linkage) or separately (analogous to > dynamic linkage). Computer programs are defined in 17 USC as > literary works > > </quote>
But what he'd be distributing is the symposium itself. Whether B is a derivative of A is irrelevant. He still needs permission to distribute A, and GPL only gives that if the other works in the symposium are also under GPL. -- --Tim Smith _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
