On Sat, 2008-06-14 at 10:31 -0400, Alan Cox wrote: > On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 03:21:09PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > > On Sat, 2008-06-14 at 06:26 -0400, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > Nobody's talking about power over other unrelated works. We're > > > > > > Yes you are. > > > > No, he's not. > > In your opinion, which seems at odds with most. No, I was being _very_ careful to leave matters of opinion out of it, as the second footnote should have made clear. I was quoting the GPL, and very lightly paraphrasing it to help clear up the confusion which you seem intent on seeding. I grant you that there is scope for different opinions on the question of precisely _when_ the GPL restricts your right to incorporate the Program in a collective work, and when you can call it "mere aggregation on a volume of a storage medium". But there is no reasonable scope for different opinions on the question of whether the GPL _may_, under copyright law, restrict your right to incorporate the GPL'd Program in a collective work. Copyright law quite clearly denies you that permission, and unless it is granted back to you by the copyright-holder (i.e. by the GPL), it remains forbidden. And it does _not_ require any kind of magic "power over unrelated works". That phrase seems just to be a deliberate misdirection. -- dwmw2 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
