Alexander Terekhov wrote:
Hyman Rosen wrote: [... "linked program" v. "assemblage of programs" ...] A "linked program" containing multiple computer program works under separate and independent copyrights *IS* "assemblage of programs collected together", silly.
The GPL states <http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl.html> A compilation of a covered work with other separate and independent works, which are not by their nature extensions of the covered work, and which are not combined with it such as to form a larger program, in or on a volume of a storage or distribution medium, is called an “aggregate” if the compilation and its resulting copyright are not used to limit the access or legal rights of the compilation's users beyond what the individual works permit. Inclusion of a covered work in an aggregate does not cause this License to apply to the other parts of the aggregate. It is clear that the GPL regards the linked program and the assemblage of programs as two different things, and authorizes the copying of a licensed work differently in one case than in the other. You may not believe this is the case, and you may choose to regard permission for the latter as giving permission for the former, but you are just wrong. But this is an incorrectness which you seem content to embrace and insist is true, and as I said, there's not much point in arguing back and forth with you, as you are neither the controlling factor in how the GPL is interpreted nor likely to change your mind. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
