"Michael K. Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [no longer relevant to debian-java, I think] > > On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 15:28:57 -0500, Brian Thomas Sniffen > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] >> You are ignoring the >> creative act performed by the programmer who arranged calls to >> functions within libc. That was creative effort on his part which >> critically involves a copy of libc. > > As is the creation of a critical essay on libc. But that's not a > derivative work either.
But an annotated edition of libc is. A program seems far more similar to an annotated edition than to a critical essay -- since it includes a copy of the library, after all, and pointers into it. -Brian -- Brian Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
