Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> This I can make sense of, and it bears no relation to any sense of the >> phrase "derivative work" with which I am familiar. Neither does it >> relate to the "modifications" of which the QPL speaks. > > So you claim that once the original work incorporate a patch, then the result > is not a derivative work of that patch ?
No, of course not. If A is written, and B is a patch to A, and C is A with the patch applied, then C is a derivative of A and B, and while B *as a whole* is a derivative of A, many parts of it may be independent works. -Brian -- Brian Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
