Interesting proposition, however the concept of derived work in a strict
copyright sense (i.e., derivative work) may not apply to implementation
of a specification. Copyright protects against copying ultimately. A
derivative work is a work that is based on and actually includes part of
the copyri
Hello. I am one of BEA's attorneys. I've been working with Cliff Schmidt and the BEA
Workshop team in connection with BEA's Beehive contribution to Apache, and in that
context have considered the issue being discussed on the thread I've cut and pasted
below (i.e., whether it is appropriate for
