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.

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