On Sep 4, 2004, at 18:24, Andrew Suffield wrote:
Can I take these two packages on the same CD and split them apart again, such that they are no longer aggregated, and still use them? For example, you can't (or at least couldn't, disregarding modern binary emulation tricks) realistically use a program linked against solaris libc without solaris libc.
This smoke test suffers the problem that its determination of 'derivative work' changes over time.
I'm pretty sure that a work is either created derivative or not; it can't suddenly become or cease to become derivative (other than a court clarifying the definition of 'derivative work', of course).
