Hyman Rosen wrote: > > On 2/3/2010 11:01 AM, Alexander Terekhov wrote: > > (Section 1 and 3 in the GPLv2). > > Section 1 grants permission for verbatim copies. > A combined work incorporating another work is not a > verbatim copy of that work. So Section 1 is inapplicable.
The material is copied verbatim you idiot. Pursuant to Section 1 or Section 2 depending on form (source/binary). That copied material fixed on a medium IS A VERBATIM COPY no matter whether it's aggregated in a collective work or not. Go ask Red Hat legal, silly. > > Section 3 grants permission to copy and distribute the > licensed work in executable form, either the work itself > or a work based on the program. A statically linked work > containing the program is not the program, so the latter Go to doctor Hyman. > permission is needed. That permission is granted only if > the work as a whole is licensed under the GPL. > > Unsurprisingly, the GPL works here exactly as intended. > > > And 'mere aggregation' clause > > Your continued deliberate misreading of a clear term is > invalid, as it always has been. Take your meds. regards, alexander. -- http://gng.z505.com/index.htm (GNG is a derecursive recursive derecursion which pwns GNU since it can be infinitely looped as GNGNGNGNG...NGNGNG... and can be said backwards too, whereas GNU cannot.) _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
