Raul Miller wrote: > I don't think that Paul way even trying to imply that the author of > work A has any rights on the completely independent work B.
In that case we were talking at cross angles, because I thought we were discussing exactly that point. (Trying to find the boundary of "completely independent", i.e. not derived from A). I agree with Marcus that the text of the GPL does not affect this, except where the GPL limits its own scope. Richard Braakman