Alexander Terekhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Merijn de Weerd wrote: > [...] >> What the GPL says in section 2 is that if you combine your own >> work with the GPL work, the GPL applies to the whole. That's >> logical: such a combination is a derivative work. This paragraph >> of text is my original work. The combination of my paragraphs >> with the parts of your message that I cited above is a derivative >> work of your message. > > Not at all. It's a compilation.
You are confusing "compilation" in the literary (and legal) and in the computer sense. A compilation is a collection of independent works only related by topic. You can throw out parts and retain a compilation. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
