"Forrest J. Cavalier III" wrote: > You can't run most source code. You must compile it, which is > preparing a derivative work.
Not quite... "[T]he U.S. Copyright Office has traditionally taken the view that object code is not a derivative work of source code. Instead, the Copyright Officers consider the source code of a piece of software and the corresponding object code as the same literary work." [1] For the full explanation read paragraph 32 through 34 in [1]. [1] Mathias Strasser "A New Paradigm in Intellectual Property Law? The Case Against Open Sources" http://stlr.stanford.edu/STLR/Article/01_STLR_4 -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3