[PD] a little ot: creative commons

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, Marc Lavallée wrote:

> Is a patch using [expr] like a derivative work? I don't think so. A 
> derivative work is more like a "new version" of something. "1+1", even 
> calculated with a GPL software and saved within a patch is not a 
> derivative work.

Derivative work according to GPL includes anything made with GPL 
libraries.

If you can make [expr] run in another process, you might have an effective 
means of circumventing the GPL. =)

> work. A picture retouched with the Gimp is a derivative work of the
> original picture, not of the Gimp.

It's not a suitable analogy because the picture doesn't contain a copy of 
the Gimp.

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