On Jun 15, 2007, Rob Landley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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? The one that speaks English, not Legalese. IANAL. Last I looked it up, "derived" was a plain-English word. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ FSF Latin America Board Member http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED], gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist [EMAIL PROTECTED], gnu.org} - 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/
