If you were to print out the source code and distribute it in a book,
it should not change the conclusions of copyright law. People tend to
get very caught up in technical theories, and they often view the law
the way they view software, but a judge will do a basic "sanity
check". If you published your own script in a book, would it be a
"derived work" of the interpreter ? No. If you published binary
executable code in a book, produced by running your own code through
GCC, is it partially derived from GCC ? Yes, and hence the exception
for GCC. Now for dynamic linking, what if you wrote a virus that
exploits and infects a critical Windows file, and you publish its
source code in a book. Is that derived from Windows ? Probably not,
because the thing has creative value distinct from Windows, but good
luck fighting Microsoft in court! The point is, it doesn't matter how
you distribute, so for human readable formats it is often instructive
to ask whether you would need permission to publish it in print.
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