Kororaa and the GPL - Update 1 [LWN.net]

Kororaa and the GPL - Update 1

Posted May 23, 2006 22:13 UTC (Tue) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
In reply to: Kororaa and the GPL - Update 1 by drag
Parent article: Kororaa and the GPL - Update 1

BTW I missed two points I wanted to make..

1. 'derived work' is decided by copyright law, not the GPL. So that's up to a judge to decide and until there is precedence then it's a mostly gray area.

2. It would be nice if Kororaa people would work on help getting a stable XGL livecd using the Free software 3d drivers that we already have. (r200_dri, r300_dri, i915_dri, etc)

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picking a nit

Posted May 25, 2006 19:07 UTC (Thu) by hummassa (subscriber, #307) [Link]

1. 'derived work' is decided by copyright law, not the GPL. So that's up to a judge to decide and until there is precedence then it's a mostly gray area.
Nevertheless, there exists at least one method already established (by (USofAn) caselaw) to decide what is and what is not a derivative work (abstraction, filtration and comparison).