Hyman Rosen wrote: > > On 3/25/2010 12:00 PM, Alexander Terekhov wrote: > > An anthology is "mere aggregation" of literary works. > > ... > > Think of shipping a pile of e-books in own file. That's what static > > linking is as far as copyright is concerned because relocation and > > symbol resolution are irrelevant details regarding copyright. > > No, both of these statements are wrong. See 17 USC 101 > <http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#101> > A collective work is a work, such as a periodical issue, > anthology, or encyclopedia, in which a number of contributions, > constituting separate and independent works in themselves, are > assembled into a collective whole.
Why do you think that "assembled" doesn't fall under "mere aggregation"? > > A compilation is a work formed by the collection and assembling Why do you think that "collection and assembling" doesn't fall under "mere aggregation"? Hyman, please stop ignoring the facts. Facts such as 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. P.S. "Every computer program in the world, BusyBox included, exceeds the originality standards required by copyright law." Hyman Rosen <hyro...@mail.com> The Silliest GPL 'Advocate' P.P.S. "Of course correlation implies causation! Without this fundamental principle, no science would ever make any progress." Hyman Rosen <hyro...@mail.com> The Silliest GPL 'Advocate' -- 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 gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
