On 01/27/2017 05:42 AM, David Woolley wrote: > On 18/01/17 15:26, John Cowan wrote: >> Pace David Woolley, it is not only the *changes* but the *entire* >> derivative work of which you are the copyright owner. Of course you >> cannot prevent the making of other derivative works under license from >> the original author.
> That doesn't seem to be the US Government position, at least during the > last administration. To me <https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ14.pdf> > says that you only own the new bits ... unless you own the derivative work because it is a "compilations of preexisting works"! A typical large open source Software would be exactly that -- code, documentation, and other works that are, and I quote, "selected, coordinated, or arranged in such a way that the resulting work as a whole constitutes a new work". The fact that some of the Software pieces belong to the open source Project itself and some were obtained/licensed from external sources is probably irrelevant here -- the Project can still claim the copyright on the "compilation" or "collective work". Alex. _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org https://lists.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
