Jonathan Dowland <j...@debian.org> writes: > On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 01:37:36PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Ah, I hadn't ever thought about it from that angle. Basically, the >> argument is that if there's no original creative addition, it can't be >> a derivative work? On first glance, 17 U.S.C. ยง 101 appears to support >> that: > Eek. What about (hypothetical) derivative works which do not add > anything, but take things away? ("this option just confuses our users") Selection of what to take away can be a creative addition in the sense that I meant it, so addition was probably the wrong word. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87d2nf3ftk....@windlord.stanford.edu