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Re: Do I have to release the patch for a GPL software under GPL?
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Alfred M. Szmidt |
Subject: |
Re: Do I have to release the patch for a GPL software under GPL? |
Date: |
Sun, 14 May 2006 17:26:30 +0200 (CEST) |
If I distribute the modifications, then yes. In this example only
*instructions* are provided. Saying "crop the photo so you see only
the face, then put it in a red frame" is not a derivative work of
that photo.
All of this is irrelevant. The instructions to crop a photo can be
applied to millions of photos, your instructions on how to modify the
program can only be applied to a single program to have a useful
result. The instructions are the modifications in this case. A patch
by any means is a set of instructions on how to modify something, and
a patch is always a deriviate work since well, it is a patch...
> To create the patch you modified a GPLed work, so it is clearly
> a modification in anyway of the word, how you represent these
> modifications are once again completely irrelevant. Then there
> is the fact that your patch requires the GPLed work to be useful.
That's not the copyright law criterion for a derivative work. The
derivative has to *contain* all or part of the pre-existing work.
And your list of instructions does contain that. You simply choose to
represent the dervivate work in a different form. How it is
represented is not relevant here since your modifications contain
specifc knowledge of the original work.
- Re: Do I have to release the patch for a GPL software under GPL?, (continued)
- Re: Do I have to release the patch for a GPL software under GPL?, Alexander Terekhov, 2006/05/13
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- Re: Do I have to release the patch for a GPL software under GPL?, Merijn de Weerd, 2006/05/13
- Re: Do I have to release the patch for a GPL software under GPL?, Alexander Terekhov, 2006/05/13
- Re: Do I have to release the patch for a GPL software under GPL?, David Kastrup, 2006/05/13
- Re: Do I have to release the patch for a GPL software under GPL?, Alexander Terekhov, 2006/05/13
- Re: Do I have to release the patch for a GPL software under GPL?, Merijn de Weerd, 2006/05/13
- Re: Do I have to release the patch for a GPL software under GPL?, Merijn de Weerd, 2006/05/13
- Re: Do I have to release the patch for a GPL software under GPL?, Alexander Terekhov, 2006/05/13
- Re: Do I have to release the patch for a GPL software under GPL?, Merijn de Weerd, 2006/05/14
- Re: Do I have to release the patch for a GPL software under GPL?, Alexander Terekhov, 2006/05/15
- Re: Do I have to release the patch for a GPL software under GPL?,
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- Re: Do I have to release the patch for a GPL software under GPL?, Merijn de Weerd, 2006/05/14
- Re: Do I have to release the patch for a GPL software under GPL?, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2006/05/14
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- Re: Do I have to release the patch for a GPL software under GPL?, Merijn de Weerd, 2006/05/14
- Re: Do I have to release the patch for a GPL software under GPL?, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2006/05/14
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- Re: Do I have to release the patch for a GPL software under GPL?, Merijn de Weerd, 2006/05/14
- Re: Do I have to release the patch for a GPL software under GPL?, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2006/05/14
- Re: Do I have to release the patch for a GPL software under GPL?, Miles Bader, 2006/05/14
- Re: Do I have to release the patch for a GPL software under GPL?, Alexander Terekhov, 2006/05/13
- Re: Do I have to release the patch for a GPL software under GPL?, David Kastrup, 2006/05/13
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- Re: Do I have to release the patch for a GPL software under GPL?, Alexander Terekhov, 2006/05/13