Re: Fuzzy machine learning framework v1.2

[BrianG <me@null.email>]

On 05/29/2012 12:11 PM, Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) wrote:
> Le Tue, 29 May 2012 11:38:02 +0200, Georg Bauhaus
> <rm.dash-bauhaus@futureapps.de> a écrit:
>> It is stunning to see programmers who are used to formal,
>> rational thinking, becoming irrational. ;-) ;-)
>>
>> The *combination* of someone else's work and yours is not your own
>> work!
> On the opposite, that's rational and practical. There is an issue with
> proper measure of things here. Think about the extreme case of a single
> line of GPL in a million lines… you see?

If that single line is sooooo important, and you can't create your own 
line(s) that do(es) the equivalent, without qualifying as a "derived 
work", then there is no problem with that "restriction".  If that 
someone-else's work were not GPL, but proprietary, there would be no 
"your work" to be worried about.

Complaining that that someone-else didn't release their work as Public 
Domain, or with a license you like better is irrelevant.  It is their 
decision to make.  If they didn't like giving you more rights to their 
work (which should be clear since such options do exist), then the only 
option would be to have given you less rights.

If you ever actually find yourself in such a circumstance, you could 
always contact the copyright holder(s) (if that's possible), and ask for 
additional rights.  I don't believe there's anything in the GPL (or 
other licenses) that prevents the copyright holder from using other 
terms in other circumstances.

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