Re: Is inherited class a derivative work?

2001-10-24 Thread Rob Myers
negotiating a deal with you (which is piracy), people will still need to buy your class in order to use the oo-derived class. So this would drive sales of your work and increase your profits rather than reduce them. - Rob. -- Rob Myers http://www.robmyers.org/ I never made a painting as a work

Re: Is inherited class a derivative work?

2001-10-24 Thread Rob Myers
. - Rob. -- Rob Myers http://www.robmyers.org/ Smash global capitalism. Spend less money. -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3

Re: Is inherited class a derivative work?

2001-10-19 Thread Rob Myers
IANAL, TINLA on 19/10/01 1:53 pm, Chris Gray at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I write a class which extends java.util.Dictionary, then whose implementation of java.util.Dictionary am I adapting: No-one's. Is the original work changed? No. Is the original work copiedpasted? No. Is the

Re: Is inherited class a derivative work?

2001-10-17 Thread Rob Myers
on 17/10/01 2:34 pm, Angelo Schneider at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In Germany dynamic linking is: derived work. Its up to your lisence if you allow it. Inheritance is NOT, NOWHERE, NEVER a derived work. However incorporating the derived class plus the base class into a piece of software

Re: YAPL is bad (was: Re: Backlog assistance?)

2001-09-25 Thread Rob Myers
On Monday, September 24, 2001, at 10:08 pm, Matthew C. Weigel wrote: On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: This leads to a GPL-related issue which is not clear to me: can redistribution of GPL code be constrained by an employment agreement? Well, that brings up the question of

Re: YAPL is bad (was: Re: Backlog assistance?)

2001-09-24 Thread Rob Myers
on 24/9/01 7:55 am, Rick Moen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I note that Russ invited my comment on the APSL publication clause. I am trying to ignore the gratuitous personal gibes, and will keep doing so, but, on the other hand will accept his invitation. Can people claiming (or wishing) to

Re: YAPL is bad (was: Re: Backlog assistance?)

2001-09-24 Thread Rob Myers
on 24/9/01 11:16 am, John Cowan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the GPL imposes no such obligation to the world at large. If you distribute a derivative work, you are obliged to distribute the original *to the recipients of the derivative work*; likewise, if you distribute binaries, you are

Re: YAPL is bad (was: Re: Backlog assistance?)

2001-09-24 Thread Rob Myers
on 24/9/01 3:26 pm, Rick Moen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But, of course, you were being very speculative, and rather jumping the gun: My assumption that the OSI Board shares my notion that the right to privacy should be a part of the definition of open source may be entirely untrue. Russ