Raul Miller wrote: > On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 04:32:17PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: >> Well, then the question is, is that combined program a derived work of >> the GPLed program? >> >> If it consists of two pieces: the GPLed program and the OpenSSL library >> -- and each exists and is fully functional without the other -- and >> neither is a derived work of the other -- >> >> Then in that case we don't have a derived work, we have an aggregated >> work or a collected work or some such. > > I'm not sure where you're going with this. > > Would you claim that copyright holders do not have the right to determine > whether or not a collected work includes their copyrighted material? No.
> If not, would you claim that in the absence of an explicit license to > incorporate that copyrighted material in that collected work, that the > collected work may legally include the material? No. > If you're not claiming either of these, are you claiming that the GPL's > "mere aggregation" clause is intended to cover cases where the collective > pieces are designed to work together as a Program? Yes. Or at any rate where they can work together as a program, through freely implementable interfaces. (If they are 'designed to work together' in such a way that they aren't cleanly separable, then the conditions I suggested do not apply, of course.) Consider bash + script X + glibc -- this is mere aggregation. -- This space intentionally left blank.
