MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > =?iso-8859-1?q?Frank_K=FCster?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> please point me to an older thread if this has been discussed before, I >> didn't find it in the archives. > > Did you check http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html first?
I didn't find it helpful in this case. >> 1. The first is whether there are any established criteria by which the >> creation of a derived work can be distinguished from mere aggregation. > > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#MereAggregation is a starting > point, if you translate it to documents. I think it depends whether the > first work could be replaced with an equivalent without requiring changes > to the later one. Oh, thanks. This is a criterion that can be well used for documentation (as opposed to the software-centric ,---- | depends both on the mechanism of communication (exec, pipes, rpc, | function calls within a shared address space, etc.) and the semantics | of the communication (what kinds of information are interchanged). `---- > AIUI, the GPL can't override copyright law and it only grants extra > permissions. It doesn't take any away. A text published with no > licence defaults to "all rights reserved" usually. Thanks, that also made things clearer to me. It sounds so obvious once someone said it... Regards, Frank -- Frank K�ster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Z�rich Debian Developer
