Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Le dimanche 02 septembre 2007 à 19:03 +0530, Shriramana Sharma a écrit : > > It's a program related to astronomy that requires latitude, > > longitude and elevation of places to calculate sunrise, sunset > > etc. For that I found the database from geonames.org. This > > database has a certain internal format which the program will be > > hard-coded to utilize. > > If the program cannot work without the database, that makes it a derived > work.
You're aware that "derived work" in the context of copyright has a specific legal meaning? I don't believe your assertion is correct in the context of copyright law. Nor do I believe it's true even in the general sense. It's quite possible to design a program to *interoperate with* a set of data without *deriving the program work from* that data set. -- \ "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make | `\ you something else is the greatest accomplishment." -- Ralph | _o__) Waldo Emerson | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
