Alexander Terekhov wrote:
Aggregation of modules (computer program works, see 17 USC 101) under separate and independent copyrights is the same as aggregation of "programs contained on a Linux distribution", idiot.
Of course it is not. To build and copy any collective work requires permission from the copyright holders of the components, and such permission is specific to each collective work. The GPL distinguishes between a collective work formed by creating a single computer program from components some of which are GPLed, and a collective work formed by mere aggregation of programs on a distribution medium. In the former case, the work as a whole must be distributed under the GPL, and in the latter case only the GPLed programs need be distributed under the GPL. This is plainly what the GPL says. You are choosing to deliberately misinterpret the words of the GPL to suit some arcane purpose of your own, but you are simply wrong. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
