On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 6:56 AM, Antony Blakey <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 10/03/2009, at 12:06 PM, Gianugo Rabellino wrote: > >> Then you're all set - as long as you use a frozen, unmodified version. >> The moment you turn it into a derivative work, you can't call it >> CouchDB anyrmore. > > Sure, our way is clear. We aren't shipping CouchDB. Makes my CouchDB Ltd > data point somewhat moot. > > Interesting issue though, given tools such as GIT that make cherry picking > patches so easy - we could construct an artifact by re-ordering or leaving > out certain patches, that wouldn't be a derived work because every component > is part of the official version.
Yeah, though I'd still contend that if you cherry-pick and reassemble, you end up with a derived work nevertheless. But this is getting OT. Ciao, -- Gianugo Rabellino Sourcesense, making sense of Open Source: http://www.sourcesense.com (blogging at http://www.rabellino.it/blog/)
