Re: gens License Check - Non-free (original) (raw)
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- From: Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org>
- Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 12:17:13 +0100
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On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 03:16:46PM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
Being derivative is a property of a work, not a property of its distribution.
And it is that property of the combined work to which the FSF objects -- no matter how tricky the instructions are about who does the combination.
It is to be expected that the FSF argues for as broad an intepretitation of the GPL as they can without breaking out laughing...
Why? I think you're thinking of a different FSF to the "Oh, you don't really need to edit that" one.
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