Hyman Rosen wrote: > > 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
You must mean a derivative work of a GPL-covered work because the term "extension" is also not defined in the GPL and/or copyright law. > or a larger program ... Full stop once again for the same reason: the term "larger program" is also not defined in the GPL and/or copyright law. To repeat, snipping ambiguity/undefined terms it says just exactly what the GFDL says (recall that under copyright law software is protected as literary works modulo the AFC test): "A compilation of the Document or its derivatives with other separate and independent documents or works, in or on a volume of a storage or distribution medium, is called an "aggregate" <snip "if" nonsense>. When the Document is included in an aggregate, this License does not apply to the other works in the aggregate which are not themselves derivative works of the Document. " IOW, it's "mere aggegation" just like in the GPLv2, stupid. > which has been formed by being combined with a GPL- > covered work, just as the GPL describes. <chuckles> Stop moving the goalposts Hyman. Stop moving the goalposts. 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