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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: markh@compro.net
Cc: dmarkh@cfl.rr.com, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Another kernel releated GPL ?
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 12:48:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1161863314.12781.30.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45409BFA.8000507@compro.net>

Ar Iau, 2006-10-26 am 07:28 -0400, ysgrifennodd Mark Hounschell:
> I'm sure every lawyer will have his own opinion. In the end won't it come down
> to the intent of the kernel developer? Surly the definition of "derivative work"
> has to be, or has been already, defined by someone other than a lawyer or court
> that knows nothing of "kernel development"?

"Derivative work" is a term of law, and it defines the boundaries of
copyright in most situations. 

Alan


  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-26 11:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-26  9:45 Mark Hounschell
2006-10-26 11:12 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-26 11:28   ` Mark Hounschell
2006-10-26 11:48     ` Alan Cox [this message]
2006-10-26 11:54     ` Pekka Enberg
2006-10-26 12:10     ` Erik Mouw
2006-10-26 13:11       ` Mark Hounschell
2006-10-26 14:21         ` Alan Cox
2006-10-26 15:02           ` Mark Hounschell
2006-10-26 16:17             ` Alan Cox
2006-10-26 16:24             ` Vadim Lobanov

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