On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 8:50 PM, Live user <nots...@live.com> wrote: > > 3) The copyright holder of the object files is the original author even if > the compiler is a third party person >
Nope, that depends on the compiler/transformation. Consider GNU autoconf. the output isn't derivative work of the source files, regardless of how big their BSD headers are. That's the biggest problem with autoconf, imo; not the idiosyncrasies of the language.
