On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 10:55:47AM -0300, Humberto Massa wrote: > What rights do the GPL'd software recipient have? The GPL grants > some rights not granted by copyrights law. I made an extensive > document and posted it to d-l, but no-one seemed to listen or to > understand. All ok. IRT making derived works, the recipient has the > right of making *some* derived works (respecting 2a and 2c) and to > redistribute those derived works under the terms of the GPL itself. > It seems not to permit anthology (collective) works, until you see > the "mere aggregation" clause (section 2 third paragraph) /which/ > appears to cover anthology works.
That clause only deals with some anthology works, not all. It's an exception to <<a "work based on the Program" means either the Program or any derivative work under copyright law: that is to say, a work containing the Program or a portion of it, either verbatim or with modifications...>> It's pretty clear that the linux kernel is not a mere aggregation of works on some volume of storage. -- Raul
