Hyman Rosen wrote: [...] > If you're copying and [diversion] work, you must have permission > from the rights holders of the components.
That permission is the non-derivative work copyright permission (Section 1 and 3 in the GPLv2). And 'mere aggregation' clause in Section 2 just makes it abundantly clear that components of the collective work don't fall under the GPL. See for example http://www.redhat.com/licenses/rhel_us_3.html "LICENSE AGREEMENT AND LIMITED PRODUCT WARRANTY RED HAT® ENTERPRISE LINUX® AND RED HAT® APPLICATIONS This agreement governs the use of the Software and any updates to the Software, regardless of the delivery mechanism. The Software is a collective work under U.S. Copyright Law. " note that Red Hat's collective work contains tons of non-GPL components even "incompatible" with the GPL. 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
