In article <[email protected]>, Hyman Rosen <[email protected]> wrote: >Alexander Terekhov wrote: >> According to the FSF (the GPL drafter), this copying falls under > > "mere aggregation", Hyman. > >No, you are incorrect. "Mere aggregation" is the placing of >multiple separate programs onto a single medium for convenience >in distribution. It is not the linking together of multiple >components into a single binary file to form a complete program.
Linking different works together does not create a derived work as this is an automated process that cannot add creation, but creation is needed in order to create a derived work. -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
