Rjack wrote:
Are you perhaps claiming it forms a collective work?
Which it? The collection of separate files on a disk, or the program?
17 USC 101 Definitions:
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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 collection of files on the disk is simply a collection of files,
because their assembly (generally) doesn't constitutes an original
work of authorship. The program is at least a collective work, and
requires extra permission because the contributed works are modified
in the process of being incorporated.
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