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Back ....

Two definitions :

http://wiki.wxwidgets.org/Development:_Definition_of_Derived_Work says

> According to United States Copyright law, a code snippet
> may be considered "derived from" if an author did his
> work similiar in nature to a piece of existing code
> after viewing that code, especially if the same author
> admits to doing so in a written form. Consider the case
> of a copyrighted manuscript that is translated into a
> different language. All the words are different, with
> no where near a one-to-one correspondence between
> definitions or word placements, and idioms may be
> completely different [...]

http://www.arrow-net.eu/faq/what-derived-work.html says

> A derivative work is a work based upon one or more
> preexisting works. A derivative work is for example
> a translation, adaptation, arrangement of music and
> other alteration, dramatisation, fictionalisation,
> motion picture version, sound recording, art
> reproduction, abridgment, condensation or any other
> form in which a work may be recast, transformed,
> reworked or adapted.*

Now, what does =93 based upon one or more preexisting works =94 stands
for ? If I use a compiler to compile an application, the work is in
someway based on the compiler. So is it a derived work ?