Humberto Massa wrote: > @ 12/05/2004 16:12 : wrote Josh Triplett : >> Humberto Massa wrote: >>> 5. I will diff the sources from the resulting program with the >>> original sources >> >> This diff is a derived work of your program and the original sources. >> >>> -- no license violation. >>> 6. I will write a script that like this: >>> mkdir ~/metagcc; chdir ~/metagcc >>> wget $PATH_TO_GCC_SOURCES >>> tar xzvf $GCC_SOURCES >>> wget $PATH_TO_METAFONT_SOURCES >>> tar xzvf $METAFONT_SOURCES >>> patch -p1 ../../metagcc.patch >> >> metagcc.patch is a derived work of your metagcc, which is a derived work >> of both gcc and metafont, so you cannot distribute metagcc.patch unless >> it satisfies the terms of gcc's license and metafont's license. >> >> Even if that is not the case, wouldn't this script constitute >> "contributory infringement"? >> >> > Only if this is the case (if I can't distribute metagcc.patch). I don't > know about metagcc license (which I think is the OPL, but I'm not > certain of it). And contributory infringement is an > USofA-jurisdiction-specific thing, here in Brasil there is no such > entity. And I'm sure it's the case in many places.
Good to know. The first point was more important anyway. I am not particularly familiar with contributory infringement, and I was simply curious if it applied here. > My primary tought is that: not containing gcc nor metafont code, and > being on its entirety of my original copyright, EMPHASIS: being entirely > *my* intellectual creation, I can license metafont.patch differently, I > am the sole copyright holder to it, as I can license the script, but > this can be wrong. I'll think a little bit more. The script does not > seem to be a derived work on any of them. The script is obviously not a derived work of GCC or Metafont. However, you stated that you were taking GCC and Metafont, creating a derived work from them (which you don't distribute), diffing that derived work against the original GCC and Metafont sources (creating a patch that is derived from your previous derived work of GCC and Metafont), and distributing that patch. It seems like any such patch would have to be a derived work of both GCC and Metafont. - Josh Triplett
