Raul Miller writes: >> The deception is calling it "great lengths." When I said the GPL >> "deals with collective works in just two paragraphs" you focused on >> the one where they are mentioned by name and entirely ignored the >> other (because you don't like what it says?). > > You seem to be ignoring everything the GPL says about "works based on > the Program".
Maybe you don't realize it, but a "mere aggregation" is also a work based on the Program: it is a collective work. Exactly how many collective works are covered by that phrase is open to debate, but you cannot ignore the GPL's treatment of such works. Michael
