Mahesh, > The nearest analogy from literature I can think of at the moment is X > being a grammar text book and Y my essay, which conforms to grammar > in that text book. Is my essay a derivative of the grammar book?
Example is too far-fetched. What if Y were a separate book with extensive treatment of the exercises presented in X ?? Y could not exist without X - the prior publication. Yet copyright AFAIK treats it as an independent work. Certainly as long is it is being distributed as a separate volume. Abe Kornelis. -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3