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: <7h97qi$t1j$1@nnrp1.deja.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 476546363 References: <7fibd5$jc7$1@news2.tor.accglobal.net> <7h2i00$adl$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <7h5rf0$i3t$1@Mercury.mcs.net> <7h83tf$150$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <7h8aqf$4nm$1@Mercury.mcs.net> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x42.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 12:29:09 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 <7h8aqf$4nm$1@Mercury.mcs.net>, les@MCS.COM (Leslie Mikesell) wrote: > Is the orginal modification legal? Would it be legal for the > author of the modification to come over and retype it for you? > How about dictating the edit commands to you over the phone as > you modify your own copy? This is exactly the function the > patch file performs. I don't see how one way of performing > these changes can be treated any differently than the others - > they are really all the same. I assume you are speaking as an attorney, or at least an expert in the copyright field, so it would be useful if you would cite some basis for your legal opinions. I continue to think that the abstraction process would immediately indicate that the patch file was a derived work in the normal sense of the meaning of this term. Once again, I do not see how the filter-compare-abstraction cycle could be applied to the patch file without reference to the original. Remember that you have to get all the way to the top in this cycle -- to something like "write a compiler" ... Can you coordinate your viewpoint with the specific court cases involved here (I assume you are familiar with them ...) --== Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ ==-- ---Share what you know. Learn what you don't.---