Hyman Rosen wrote: > > On 3/29/2010 3:53 PM, Alexander Terekhov wrote: > > To quote the FSF itself, the GPL itself rejects ANY (to repeat: ANY, > > ANY, ANY) automatic aggregation of software copyrights under the GPL > > That's correct, there is no automatic aggregation of software > copyright under the GPL. Any acceptance of the GPL for a work, > collective or derivative, is strictly voluntary on the part of > the secondary author.
Go to doctor, silly Hyman. http://www.btlj.org/data/articles/21_04_04.pdf "A licensor who contractually prohibited the combination of its software with other programs in situations where adaptation rights are not affected would exceed the scope of its copyright by seeking to control external activities and subject matternamely, the use of independent programs. Depending on the context, such a clause could, in effect, constitute a prohibition on using competing products. In any event, such a clause would limit a licensees right to create compilations and non-creative combinationsrights that the Copyright Act declares to be free, in contrast to the right to prepare derivative works.196 Thus, such a copyright owner would seem to run a significant risk that a court would classify such a clause as copyright misuse with the dramatic result that the copyright owner would be denied copyright protection even against outright piracy. A licensor who merely prohibits licensees from creating derivative works, as the term is defined by statute and through combinations or otherwise, would generally remain within the scope of its statutory rights and not risk a finding of copyright misuse. The need to prevent an abuse of intellectual property law is internationally recognized.197" regards, alexander. P.S. "Every computer program in the world, BusyBox included, exceeds the originality standards required by copyright law." Hyman Rosen <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
