Eriberto Mota <[email protected]> writes: > Now, I would like to understand why the packaging isn't a derivative > work (when haven't a patch).
The term “derived work” or “derivative work” is a term of art from copyright law. The determination of whether one work is, in this sense, derived from some particular other work, is made ultimately by a judge in a legal jurisdiction. Given that caveat, the general idea is: Work BAR is derived from work FOO if, in the determination of whoever is making the decision, work BAR was created by *copying* the (whole or part of) work FOO. Work BAR is possibly later modified a little, or extensively; but the idea is that one could trace the provenance of the work back through copies and modifications, and arrive at work FOO. So the Debian packaging work in ‘debian/’ for work FOO is generally not created by starting from a copy of FOO. Instead, the packaging work is generally created from something else; it is not a modified FOO. So if that's true, the packaging work is not a work derived from FOO. <URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivative_work> -- \ “I am too firm in my consciousness of the marvelous to be ever | `\ fascinated by the mere supernatural …” —Joseph Conrad, _The | _o__) Shadow-Line_ | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
