Alexander Terekhov <[email protected]> writes: > Hyman Rosen wrote: >> >> On 2/10/2010 6:17 PM, Alexander Terekhov wrote: >> > One *SINGLE* (consisting of a separate unique whole) project is not a >> > joint work although it produces a (single) (combined) "larger program"??? >> >> Correct. A joint work is created only when all of its > > Why didn't Erik Andersen fork the busybox to create his own non-joint > version of busybox?
How would you know the difference? He did not have to negotiate permission with previous authors for continuing to maintain it. With free software, there is no way to know which is the fork, and which the mainline. If you take a look at gcc history, you'll find that the egcs fork became the main line eventually. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
