Auke Jilderda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ok, but is this about copyright law? AFAIK, the source code is > automatically copyrighted to the author but that is something different > than the actual license under which the software is distributed.
The GPL aggresively covers whatever derived works *can* be covered under copyright law. The GPL cannot cover something *not* affected by copyright law, because it's only force is to grant you an execption to the normal rule that you can't copy such things at all.
