On Friday 15 June 2007 15:28:29 Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Jun 15, 2007, Rob Landley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 14 June 2007 22:25:57 Alexandre Oliva wrote: > >> Is the signature not derived from the bits in the GPLed component, as > >> much as it is derived from the key? > > > > Actually, you can't copyright, trademark, or patent a number. > > Agreed. And this counter-argument of yours is a distraction. > > I was careful to not talk about "derived work".
"Is the signature not derived from X as much as it is derived from Y." "I was careful to not talk about "derived work"." Which personality of yours am I currently addressing? > Please read it again > under this clarification (that I'm pretty sure I'd already made > before, but it's getting hard to keep track of everything in this > thread ;-) I'm going to stop feeding the troll now... Rob -- "One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code." - Ken Thompson. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
