On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 11:32:59AM -0300, Humberto Massa wrote: > You have at least half a point here. Derived works... are you implying > that if you integrate gcc better with Palladium you will make the > new-gcc a derived work of Palladium?
That is specifically the kind of work I wanted to talk about. "Palladium" is a secondary issue -- a place holder -- and was mentioned because of some vaporware claims about it, not because of anything specific and concrete. > Brazilian copyright law (9610/98) definition of derived work: the work > achieved by some transformation of the original work, but is a novel > intellectual creation in (and by) itself. Is new-gcc result of a > transformation on palladium? no, I don't think so. (Remember Brazilian > law is strongly influenced by Berne convention, and similar terms are in > copyright law in various other jurisdictions of Debian interest). I'm specifically talking [well, trying to talk] about works which would be a transformation on palladium. -- Raul