@ 17/06/2004 00:43 : wrote Raul Miller :
>>>However, this sentence makes clear that "works based on the Program" >>>is meant to include both derivative works based on the Program and >>>collective works based on the Program. > > >On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 11:12:37PM -0400, Michael Poole wrote: > >> In addition, mere aggregation of another work not based on the >> Program with the Program (or with a work based on the Program) on >> a volume of a storage or distribution medium does not bring the >> other work under the scope of this License. >> >>This sentence deals just as much with collective works, and makes >>clear that "mere aggregation" is not sufficient to invoke GPL coverage >>of the other work(s). What is your point? > > >My point is that any sentence talking about "a work based on the >Program" is by default talking about both derivative and collective >works.
No way. The clause #0 of the GPL is crystal clear: << a "work based on the Program" means either the Program or any derivative work under copyright law >> DERIVATIVE. Under copyright law.
_Not_ collective/compilation/anthology.
> >>>So what is this "deception" you're talking about? >> >>The deception is calling it "great lengths." When I said the GPL >>"deals with collective works in just two paragraphs" you focused on >>the one where they are mentioned by name and entirely ignored the >>other (because you don't like what it says?). > > >You seem to be ignoring everything the GPL says about "works based on >the Program". >
"Works based on the Program" are only the _derivative_ works.
-- br,M
