On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 12:52:15PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: > The act of compiling source code into binary does not *add* creative > elements to the original work, hence the law says that this act cannot > *add* copyright holders to the work.
That depends on the compiling process. Consider, for example, building emacs against a third party supplied proprietary libc. -- Raul