From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, MSGID_RANDY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,43ae7f61992b3213 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,faf964ea4531e6af X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Robert Dewar Subject: Re: [O/T 4 cla] Re: GPL and "free" software Date: 1999/05/06 Message-ID: <7gqm61$ihu$1@nnrp1.deja.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 474516349 References: <7fibd5$jc7$1@news2.tor.accglobal.net> <7g7ul9$tib$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <3727B37D.A4A5192E@noah.dhs.org> <7g9rh5$h5a$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7gdv6m$1fid$1@Mercury.mcs.net> <372DCFB9.57F91727@iiinet.dhs.org> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x4.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.4 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Thu May 06 00:02:11 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,gnu.misc.discuss X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/3.01SC-SGI (X11; I; IRIX 5.3 IP22) Date: 1999-05-06T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , James Youngman wrote: > What about "diff -e"? What possible difference does that make. Remember that software copyright is NOT based on literal text identity. You can have two pieces with literal text identity that are not infringing, and two pieces with no literal text identity which are infringing. Either a patch is a derived work or it is not, the details of how the patch is transmitted cannot matter. Given that the patch is completely useless without the original work, and that in fact the patch is operationally equivalent to the modified work if you have the original, then it is hard for me to imagine that a court would rule that it was not a derived work. Note we are talking copyright here and not patents, the distinction if of course crucial in this case. -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own