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Re: GPL traitor !
From: |
Alexander Terekhov |
Subject: |
Re: GPL traitor ! |
Date: |
Mon, 18 May 2009 18:40:48 +0200 |
Hyman Rosen wrote:
>
> Alexander Terekhov wrote:
> > Hyman Rosen wrote:
> >> This is false; if you link statically with a GPLed library, the work
> >> as a whole must be distributed under the GPL.
> > Sez who?
>
> United States copyright law:
> <http://www.copyright.gov/title17/circ92.pdf> Page 201
> § 201 · Ownership of copyright
> ...
> (c) Contributions to Collective Works.
> ... In the absence of an express transfer of the copyright or of any
> rights under it, the owner of copyright in the collective work is
> presumed to have acquired only the privilege of reproducing and
> distributing the contribution as part of that particular collective
> work, any revision of that collective work, and any later collective
> work in the same series.
>
> This tells you that the copyright owner of a collective work must acquire
> the privilege of reproducing and distributing the components as part of
> that work, and that such privilege is separate from other grants for those
> works, past or future.
The explicit permission to "mere aggregate" is good enough for any sort
of collective works, silly.
See also:
http://grove.ufl.edu/~techlaw/vol7/issue1/pierce.html
regards,
alexander.
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