Brian Thomas Sniffen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "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.
Now you stopped making sense. A program includes only references to a library, not the library itself. A distribution, e.g. Debian, might include both the program and the library. I don't see a problem with distributing a collection of programs, where some of them can be combined in ways that violate some license, as long as all of them still have legitimate uses. -- Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED]
