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: 1999/05/11 Message-ID: <7h83tf$150$1@nnrp1.deja.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 476401646 References: <7fibd5$jc7$1@news2.tor.accglobal.net> <7grvur$li2$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <7h2aca$2mqq$1@Mercury.mcs.net> <7h2i00$adl$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <7h5rf0$i3t$1@Mercury.mcs.net> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x40.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 Organization: Deja.com - Share what you know. Learn what you don't. X-Article-Creation-Date: Tue May 11 02:16:16 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,gnu.misc.discuss X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 1999-05-11T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <7h5rf0$i3t$1@Mercury.mcs.net>, les@MCS.COM (Leslie Mikesell) wrote: > Can you suggest a starting point where (a) the parties had not > agreed to restrictive licensing terms and (b) the material > copied > contained only changes to the covered work and none of the > original? Any other type of case would not have much > relevance. I disagree, if one followed the filter-compare-abstract cycle with a patch, it is pretty clear that the very first level of abstraction (going from the specific text to the abstracted meaning) would immediately involve the original work. I don't see any way to follow the required FCA methodology that would avoid this. If you can see how the FCA approach would apply in some other manner to a patch file, please elucidiate! Certainly if I was an expert in such a case, and I was asked to abstract a patch file, I would have to see the original file that was being patched, I can't see any other way to proceed. --== Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ ==-- ---Share what you know. Learn what you don't.---