On 3/25/2010 12:59 PM, Alexander Terekhov wrote:
Hyman, please stop ignoring the facts.
And in fact, "mere aggregation" means exactly what the FSF wants it to mean, not more and not less, because "mere aggregation" is not a term defined by copyright law but a term defined by a license, and as such it is to the license that one must go to to see if some combined work is a "mere aggregation" or not. It is clear from the text of the GPL that a statically linked program is not a "mere aggregation" of its components. For example, if a document was licensed to be freely copyable except that it must not be copied and distributed on a medium together with instructions on how to make bombs, it would be a reading of the license that determined whether it would be permitted to copy and distribute it on a medium together with instructions on how to make firecrackers. Copyright law would have nothing to say on the matter - there is no definition of "bomb" in copyright law, and there is no definition of "mere aggregation" in copyright law. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
