David Given <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [But you can still distribute your changes. A common way of getting > round unpleasant licenses is to distribute a copy of the original, > unmodified work, plus a patch file containing the changes --- all > perfectly legal. That's one reason why Debian packages work the way they > do.]
This is a much disputed point. There are plenty of folks who are of the opinion that patches *are* derivative works, and there is plenty of good reason to think they may be right.