On 3/29/2010 10:02 AM, Alexander Terekhov wrote:
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?
The "unified program" is an extension of a GPL-covered work or a larger program which has been formed by being combined with a GPL- covered work, just as the GPL describes. Separate permission is required from rights holders every time a work is copied and distributed as part of a collective work, and the rights holders may choose to distinguish what permissions they grant based on the nature of the collective work, or in fact based on anything at all. The creators of the GPL choose to grant different permission based upon whether a covered work is included as part of an aggregate on a distribution medium, or whether it is integrated into a single program. Your willful misinterpretation of the permissions granted by the GPL serves your purposes as an anti-GPL crank, but fools no one. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
