Glenn Maynard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 11:00:54PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: >> Le mardi 02 novembre 2004 à 21:53 +0100, Wesley W. Terpstra a écrit : >> > Mr. John Wontshare writes a streaming multicast client. >> > To deal with packet loss, he uses my error-correcting library. >> > Without my library, Mr. Wontshare's client can't work at all. >> > Mr. Wontshare's client represents only a small investment of effort and >> > without having had access to my library, he could have never written it. >> > He then distributes his client along with my library to end-users. >> >> If Mr Wontshare's client doesn't work without your software, this is >> what I call a derivative work. Whether it is linked to it using ELF or >> not is irrelevant. > > What you call a derivative work is irrelevant; the only one that matters > is what copyright law calls a derivative work. Copyright law defines > derivative work, not licenses.
Actually, copyright law talks a great deal about derivative works, without ever going to the trouble of defining them, which is what causes so much confusion. -- Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED]