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picking a nit

picking a nit

Posted May 25, 2006 19:07 UTC (Thu) by hummassa (subscriber, #307)
In reply to: Kororaa and the GPL - Update 1 by drag
Parent article: Kororaa and the GPL - Update 1

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).

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