"Lawrence E. Rosen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in part: > > Then, Forrest's question: what about a book that isn't a > > derivative work? Could contract law and some technically > > inept judge compell the book publisher to release the book's > > source code (DocBook / TeX / whatever) under OSL? > > Not if it ain't a Derivative Work, I'd say.
How does not being Derivative Work matter? Isn't the OSL a contract and not a copyright license? "Derivative Work" doesn't even appear in OSL 1.1 paragraph 3. Consider a case when the software is meant to be deployed as a network service. Users use the software by accessing it via a network. Seems to me by the OSL paragraph 3, a book publisher is compelled to include a machine-readable copy of their book if they provide a copy of the Original work. For "access and modify the Original Work" did you mean "obtain"? "locate"? "identify"? -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3