I think you're confusing "copies," "collective works" and "derivative
works." These are each defined in the Copyright Act, 17 USC §101.
There is no such definition for "component of an aggregate software
distribution." Claiming a collective work copyright doesn't mean you've
created a derivative
On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 14:26, Lawrence E. Rosen wrote:
>
> Article 1 now reads as follows:
>
>"The license shall not restrict any party from selling or
>giving away the software as a component of an aggregate
>software distribution containing programs from several
>sources. The l
Rod,
In your commentary (§1-1) on Article 1 of the OSD ("Free Distribution")
you reference several cases on copyright misuse. That confuses me. The
copyright misuse doctrine has no application for that article of the
OSD.
Article 1 now reads as follows:
"The license shall not restrict any p
Bjorn Reese wrote:
> I have to agree with David. The documentation quality of the
> source code is orthogonal to the availability of source code,
> and thus has nothing to do with the OSD.
I also agree with you and David as far as that goes, but that's not
quite the point I was making. I don't
David Johnson wrote:
> My opinion is that "deliberately obfuscated source code" should be decoupled
> from documentation. The quality and state of documentation is very
> subjective, and should not be a part of the OSD.
I have to agree with David. The documentation quality of the source
code is o
> > My opinion is that "deliberately obfuscated source code" should be
> > decoupled
> > from documentation. The quality and state of documentation is very
> > subjective, and should not be a part of the OSD.
>
> IMHO that was meant to exclude people from publishing their
> source code after it
David Johnson scripsit:
> My opinion is that "deliberately obfuscated source code" should be decoupled
> from documentation. The quality and state of documentation is very
> subjective, and should not be a part of the OSD.
IMHO that was meant to exclude people from publishing their source code
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