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Re: Do I have to release the patch for a GPL software under GPL?
From: |
Alexander Terekhov |
Subject: |
Re: Do I have to release the patch for a GPL software under GPL? |
Date: |
Fri, 12 May 2006 00:19:54 +0200 |
"Alfred M. Szmidt" wrote:
[...]
> Ask yourself the following, and all your questions will be answered:
> Does the patch work without the GPLed software? If it doesn't, then
> it is clearly a deriviate work.
It may well be a "deriviate" work (whatever that means in the GNU
Republic). But this "test" has absolutely nothing to do with the
legal meaning of "derivative" regarding computer program works --
stuff protected under Berne Convention as literary works (and,
under US case law, modulo the AFC test).
regards,
alexander.
- 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?, Byron A Jeff, 2006/05/08
- Re: Do I have to release the patch for a GPL software under GPL?, David Kastrup, 2006/05/08
- Re: Do I have to release the patch for a GPL software under GPL?, John Hasler, 2006/05/08
- Re: Do I have to release the patch for a GPL software under GPL?, Byron A Jeff, 2006/05/08
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- Re: Do I have to release the patch for a GPL software under GPL?, Gordon Burditt, 2006/05/12
- Re: Do I have to release the patch for a GPL software under GPL?, Alexander Terekhov, 2006/05/12
- Re: Do I have to release the patch for a GPL software under GPL?, Gordon Burditt, 2006/05/12
- Re: Do I have to release the patch for a GPL software under GPL?, Alexander Terekhov, 2006/05/12
Re: Do I have to release the patch for a GPL software under GPL?, Alexander Terekhov, 2006/05/11
Re: Do I have to release the patch for a GPL software under GPL?, John Hasler, 2006/05/11
Re: Do I have to release the patch for a GPL software under GPL?, David Kastrup, 2006/05/12