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From: | Hyman Rosen |
Subject: | Re: [ROFL] GCC's GPLv3 "Updated License Exception" |
Date: | Fri, 06 Feb 2009 09:53:47 -0500 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) |
Alan Mackenzie wrote:
An example of a "mere aggregation" is two books bound together in a single spine. However, if two authors were to cooperate to produce a single book, this would not be a "mere aggretation" - it would be a tightly integrated whole - just like a single binary resulting from a compilation process.
No. What's missing from the compilation case is the work of authorship. Copyrighted works are created by human authors doing creative work. Period. Any other way of creating a work that contains pieces of copyrighted material results in just that - a pile of stuff with copyrighted material in it. The work as a whole cannot be separately copyrighted. The right to make copies of it is the intersection of the right to make copies of the pieces.
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