Hyman Rosen wrote: > > Alexander Terekhov wrote: > > Did I really miss the breaking news > > I expect that the collection of programs that make up > a SUSE disk is a collective work while a program built > with GPLed components is a compilation. The former has > distribution permission from the GPL under the "mere > aggregation" terms while the latter does not.
Are you okay, Hyman? http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:H.R._Rep._No._94-1476_(1976)_Page_188.djvu ------ A compilation is a work formed by the collection and assembling of pre-existing materials or of data that are selected, coordinated, or arranged in such a way that the resulting work as a whole constitutes an original work of authorship. The term compilation includes collective works. ------ The term compilation includes collective works. The term compilation includes collective works. The term compilation includes collective works. The term compilation includes collective works. The term compilation includes collective works. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/101.html ------ A collective work is a work, such as a periodical issue, anthology, or encyclopedia, in which a number of contributions, constituting separate and independent works in themselves, are assembled into a collective whole. A compilation is a work formed by the collection and assembling of preexisting materials or of data that are selected, coordinated, or arranged in such a way that the resulting work as a whole constitutes an original work of authorship. The term compilation includes collective works. ------ The term compilation includes collective works. The term compilation includes collective works. The term compilation includes collective works. The term compilation includes collective works. The term compilation includes collective works. regards, alexander. -- http://gng.z505.com/index.htm (GNG is a derecursive recursive derecursion which pwns GNU since it can be infinitely looped as GNGNGNGNG...NGNGNG... and can be said backwards too, whereas GNU cannot.) _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
