On Saturday, August 20, 2016 at 2:28:58 AM UTC+2, Robert Dodier wrote: > > I know that various parties have offered their opinions about what > constitutes a derived work, including the FSF, the institution behind > the GPL. But even the FSF's interpretation isn't binding on anybody -- > whether some work falls under the GPL depends on copyright law, which > can only be decided by a court, not the you, me, or the FSF, and even > then we don't have a whole lot of court cases to guide us. >
That has nothing to do with software, if you want a legally binding interpretation of anything then you have to go to court. And, as you know, if there is any question about interpretation then the court will almost certainly side with the interpretations written previously by the FSF, so in practice the FSF's interpretation does matter. Since there can be quite some money involved its quite certain that somebody would have produced a court case had they seen a reasonable chance of success in challenging the FSF's interpretation. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
