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Re: GPL 2(b) HUH?
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Barry Margolin |
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Re: GPL 2(b) HUH? |
Date: |
Fri, 19 Sep 2008 23:23:11 -0400 |
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In article <GJNAk.10074$o72.294@fe111.usenetserver.com>,
Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote:
> Barry Margolin wrote:
> > It's not the scheduler that's a derivative, it's the new Linux kernel
> > that results from replacing the scheduler in the old kernel. I.e.
> >
> > Linux - schedulerA + schedulerB => derivative of Linux.
>
> But the new scheduler itself is not entangled with the copyright
> of Linux. And the combined work of Linux + new scheduler is a
> derivative of Linux only if the changes to use the new scheduler
> involved enough modifications to Linux to consider them a significant
> work of authorship.
In my opinion, the scheduler is an integral part of Linux, just as
Chapter 1 is an integral part of a Harry Potter book. An operating
system is NOT an anthology.
Application programs, on the other hand, are independent. The
collection of all the applications included in a Linux distribution
would be a collective work, analogous to an anthology.
--
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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- Re: GPL 2(b) HUH?, (continued)
- Re: GPL 2(b) HUH?, Hyman Rosen, 2008/09/17
- Re: GPL 2(b) HUH?, Barry Margolin, 2008/09/18
- Re: GPL 2(b) HUH?, Hyman Rosen, 2008/09/19
- Re: GPL 2(b) HUH?, Ben Pfaff, 2008/09/19
- Re: GPL 2(b) HUH?, Alexander Terekhov, 2008/09/20
- Re: GPL 2(b) HUH?, Barry Margolin, 2008/09/20
- Re: GPL 2(b) HUH?, Hyman Rosen, 2008/09/21
- Re: GPL 2(b) HUH?, John Hasler, 2008/09/21
- Re: GPL 2(b) HUH?, Rjack, 2008/09/21
- Re: GPL 2(b) HUH?, Hyman Rosen, 2008/09/21
- Re: GPL 2(b) HUH?,
Barry Margolin <=
- Re: GPL 2(b) HUH?, Hyman Rosen, 2008/09/21
- Re: GPL 2(b) HUH?, Barry Margolin, 2008/09/21
- Re: GPL 2(b) HUH?, Hyman Rosen, 2008/09/21
- Re: GPL 2(b) HUH?, Barry Margolin, 2008/09/22
- Re: GPL 2(b) HUH?, David Kastrup, 2008/09/22
- Re: GPL 2(b) HUH?, Hyman Rosen, 2008/09/22
- Re: GPL 2(b) HUH?, Rjack, 2008/09/17
- Re: GPL 2(b) HUH?, Barry Margolin, 2008/09/18
- Re: GPL 2(b) HUH?, David Kastrup, 2008/09/19
Re: GPL 2(b) HUH?, JEDIDIAH, 2008/09/17