Rich Freeman posted on Fri, 15 Nov 2013 08:38:20 -0500 as excerpted: > That's what I'm getting at. The actual changes themselves aren't a > derivative work - it is the result of applying them that is.
I can (cautiously) agree with that, tho I'm sure there are those who would take an opposing position, certainly if they're lawyers paid to do so! Meanwhile, I found your (paraphrased) "on the third line, after the comma" example interesting, both since I saw a similar argument on one of the pages that came up in my google, and because it's basically what a sed script (as opposed to a patch) does in practice. The point being that simple instructions saying /how/ to do it, without incorporating any of the original work, can hardly be said to be derived. (The example I saw in my google was text instructions for cutting a face out of a larger photo and putting a red frame around it. It's quite clear that those text instructions are not derivative of a particular photo, while a screen-grab illustrating the process may well be considered derivative of the original photo, since it includes part of it. A sed script is arguably similar, tho s// regex replacement can certainly be borderline, but for the triviality test.) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
