In article <[email protected]>, Hyman Rosen <[email protected]> wrote: >Joerg Schilling wrote: >> 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.
>US copyright law >US copyright law >US copyright law >US copyright law >US copyright law >US copyright law >US copyright law A lot of unimportant remarks. Most of the OSS Code is from Europe and most OSS users are in Europe. Arguing with US Copyright _only_ gives a bad taste. >We see that the creator of a collective work must have the permission >of the copyright holders of the components to include them, and this is >separate from any other permission that the rights holders may have granted. If you read the GPL, you will find out that the GPL gives the permission to use the software.....the needed way. If you create a work that _contains_ GPL code, you need to put the whole under GPL. If you however link a GPL project against any library that was independently developed, this library does not need to be under GPL as the GPL is _intentionally_ open for this case. -- 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
