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Robert Dewar wrote:
> Wes Groleau <wesgroleau@despammed.com> wrote in message news:<3CD92EA5.2EF45E7D@despammed.com>...
>>But I _can_ claim copyright on the parts that I did.
> 
> Not really! You can't just go around creating deriviative
> works without the original author's permission, since this
> is in itself a clear copyright violation.

For USians, look at <http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ14.html>.
 From there,
	Only the owner of copyright in a work has the right to prepare,
	or to authorize someone else to create, a new version of that work.

That's why the GPL is such a strong and unbeatable license.