* Bruce Perens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > IANAL, of course.
No problem - neither am I. > For software, "use" is execution of the software. > > Copyright law doesn't speak much of software at all, so we can't rely > on that for a definition and must look at court cases for precedents. > > Creation of derived works is a separate right from use under > copyright law. It can be restricted separately from use, and vice > versa. The act of modifying software creates a derived work > that is partially your copyright, and partially that of the original > contributor. So as an author of a library or the like I need to grant the license to use and...... > There is some contention regarding whether linking creates a derived > work, and exactly one court case on the topic that isn't definitive. So to allow someone to distribute a statically linked version of something linked with a library; I should probably give them rights to make a derivative work; but also would need to give them rights to grant use licenses on the derivative? Dave ---------------- Have a happy GNU millennium! ---------------------- / Dr. David Alan Gilbert | Running GNU/Linux on Alpha,68K| Happy \ \ gro.gilbert @ treblig.org | MIPS,x86,ARM, SPARC and HP-PA | In Hex / \ _________________________|_____ http://www.treblig.org |_______/ -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3
