On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 10:13:04PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > If the code is copyrighted, then we must consider the case of someone > incorporating the Sun RPC code into a work and distributing it to a > second person, who subsequently refines this work to create yet another > work which happens to be identical to the original Sun RPC code. In > such a case, there are two possible interpretations under copyright that > must be considered:
The rest of the argument holds based on this hypothesis. Unfortunately for your argument, the hypothesis is false - "incorporating the Sun RPC code into a work, distributing that to a second person, who subsequently refines it further" is clearly a derivative work of the original Sun RPC code. It's not independant creation at all. These are therefore not two possible interpretations under copyright. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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