Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> Does copyright law have any notion of "a complete program"? ;-)
No. Copyright law has the notion of a collective work, which is
<http://www.copyright.gov/title17/circ92.pdf>
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 compiled binary consisting of libraries and object files linked
together into a single file is a collective work.
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