[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Küster) writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Måns Rullgård) schrieb: > >> Arnoud Engelfriet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> But anyway, although computer programs definitely are recognized >>> as subject to copyright in the EU, they do not fit the definition >>> of "derivative work" or "adaptation" very well. There just is no >>> guidance in this area. If you translate something, turn a book >>> into a play or putting a poem to music, you can just look it up >>> in the law. But software just isn't discussed much (other than >>> the no-reverse-engineering-unless and one-backup-copy provisions >>> and the like). >> >> Exactly my point. What would the equivalent of dynamic linking be? A >> book that says on the first page: take chapters 3 and 6 from book Foo >> and insert after chapter 4 in this book, then read the result. > > Perhaps more realistic: > > "Exercises and solutions. An add-on book to: A.Uthor, Principles of > Somethingology. An undergraduate textbook, PubLisher Inc., Someplace > 2002" > > with chapter 10 containing the exercise: > > 5. The derivation of the CENTRAL FORMULA in chapter 3 (pp. 64ff) was a > little simplified. With the knowledge of the Advanced anything as > outlined in chapter 10, you should now be able to understand the > complete derivation. > > a) What is the simplification in the derivation on p. 66? > > b) How can it be formulated correctly?
Wouldn't such a book be allowed? I can't see anything that would stop it. -- Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED]