Anthony DeRobertis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Dec 16, 2003, at 10:20, Brian T. Sniffen wrote: >> >> I didn't say there's no copyright generated by the pairing -- just >> that the pairing can't be separated from the writing of the plugin. >> The plugin author, in the course of writing and testing his plugin, >> must have assembled the combination of host+plugin in a persistent >> form. > > If the author distributed it unpaired, then I re-pair it, that's not > under the original author's copyright (if any) on that pairing. > > Debian pairing the plugin doesn't generate a copyright.
If an artist paints a picture with a hole in it -- a window frame, say, in an odd shape, and a second artist paints a picture to fit in that hole and stylistically match the whole picture, that second artist's copyright on the combination persists, even if they are distributed seperately. -- Brian Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
