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Yaghmour: Extending Android's HAL

Yaghmour: Extending Android's HAL

Posted Jul 17, 2012 16:01 UTC (Tue) by bjartur (guest, #67801)
In reply to: Yaghmour: Extending Android's HAL by butlerm
Parent article: Yaghmour: Extending Android's HAL

What if the components are a novel and annotations? Or a textbook and errata? Or a kernel and an extra driver?

I believe the errata in and of it self to be an original work. But when bundled with the textbook, the composition surely must constitute a derived work. Annotations are usually useless without the annotated work. This article does, on the other hand, not forbid reviews, for example.

Drivers bundled with a kernel can similarly be considered as "elaborations, or other modifications which, as a whole, represent an original work of authorship."

Obviously, IANAL. Additionally, I don't speak English natively, and am in fact quite uncertain as to whether I'm interpreting the last sentence of your quotation of 17 USC 101 correctly.


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