Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 Feb 2003 03:01:30 +0000 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: Monta Vista software license terms |
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David Schwartz wrote: > It's a complex and technical legal issue,
I agree.
> but I'm not doing anything > unusual with it. See, for example, section 103 which states: > > "The copyright in a compilation or derivative work extends only to > the material contributed by the author of such work, as distinguished > from the preexisting material employed in the work, and does not > imply any exclusive right in the preexisting material."
This seems to be the realm of the "user does the link" and "user does the patch" discussions from many years ago on gnu.misc.discuss.
Clarity wasn't forthcoming then, either.
(Personally I suspect it would be a long and complicated argument in court, questioning awkward things like intent of the law, intent of the authors, quid pro quo and other considerations if the parties were willing to pursue it all the way. But I know very little about law!)
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