Hyman Rosen wrote: > > Alexander Terekhov wrote: > > Hyman Rosen wrote: > >> This is false; if you link statically with a GPLed library, the work > >> as a whole must be distributed under the GPL. > > Sez who? > > United States copyright law: > <http://www.copyright.gov/title17/circ92.pdf> Page 201 > § 201 · Ownership of copyright > ... > (c) Contributions to Collective Works. > ... In the absence of an express transfer of the copyright or of any > rights under it, the owner of copyright in the collective work is > presumed to have acquired only the privilege of reproducing and > distributing the contribution as part of that particular collective > work, any revision of that collective work, and any later collective > work in the same series. > > This tells you that the copyright owner of a collective work must acquire > the privilege of reproducing and distributing the components as part of > that work, and that such privilege is separate from other grants for those > works, past or future.
The explicit permission to "mere aggregate" is good enough for any sort of collective works, silly. See also: http://grove.ufl.edu/~techlaw/vol7/issue1/pierce.html regards, alexander. -- http://gng.z505.com/index.htm (GNG is a derecursive recursive derecursion which pwns GNU since it can be infinitely looped as GNGNGNGNG...NGNGNG... and can be said backwards too, whereas GNU cannot.) _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
