Hyman Rosen wrote: > > On 3/26/2010 5:23 AM, Alexander Terekhov wrote: > > http://www.redhat.com/licenses/rhel_us_3.html > > The Software is a collective work under U.S. Copyright Law. " > > > > http://www.novell.com/products/opensuse/eula.html > > "The Software is a collective work of Novell" > > > > Note that Red Hat's and Novell's collective works (compilations aka > > "mere aggregations" in GNU-speak) contain tons of non-GPL components > > even "incompatible" with the GPL. > > And there's no problem with that: > <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> > A compilation of a covered work with other separate and independent > works, which are not by their nature extensions of the covered work, > and which are not combined with it such as to form a larger program, > in or on a volume of a storage or distribution medium, is called an > aggregate if the compilation and its resulting copyright are not > used to limit the access or legal rights of the compilation's users > beyond what the individual works permit. Inclusion of a covered work > in an aggregate does not cause this License to apply to the other > parts of the aggregate. > > As an anti-GPL crank, you choose to deliberately misunderstand the > the GPL's distinction between aggregating a covered work into a > distribution with other works and integrating a covered work into a > unified program. But that's you. People without axes to grind aren't > going to have such trouble.
Stop moving the goalposts Hyman. You've been talking about collective works aka compilations. How come that now it's called "a unified program"? Don't you know that such a term is not defined in the GPL and/or copyright law? regards, alexander. P.S. "Every computer program in the world, BusyBox included, exceeds the originality standards required by copyright law." Hyman Rosen <hyro...@mail.com> The Silliest GPL 'Advocate' P.P.S. "Of course correlation implies causation! Without this fundamental principle, no science would ever make any progress." Hyman Rosen <hyro...@mail.com> The Silliest GPL 'Advocate' -- 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 gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
