[PD] a little ot: creative commons

[Marc Lavallée]

Le 15 Juin 2006 09:40, Frank Barknecht a écrit :
> There seems to be no consensus about wether a patch, that uses
> externals released under GPL, should have to be GPL, too. Personally I
> don't believe it has to be GPL, but I think, IOhannes once argued that
> it has to be GPL as well. (Which would mean, that all patches using
> [expr] would need to be GPL, btw.)

A patch is not a derived work, so it doesn't have to be GPL.
For example, an image created with Gimp doesn't have to be GPL.
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Marc