Elastic promises "open"—delivers proprietary

Posted Feb 1, 2021 8:21 UTC (Mon) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: Elastic promises "open"—delivers proprietary by kemitchell
Parent article: Elastic promises "open"—delivers proprietary

Ahhhh - looking at 2(b) the source of your confusion is obvious.

It does NOT say "the Corresponding Source must be released under this licence".

It says "the Corresponding Source AS A WHOLE WORK .... EXCLUDING any sections that are identifiable and not derived works" (ie pretty much any source file you have not edited!) And if you edit a source file it becomes a derived work, and you must release your modifications to it "under this licence".

You are making the same mistake I have a habit of making - you are not READING THE FULL TEXT. It's called "taking things out of context" and it leads to exactly this sort of mistake.

Cheers,
Wol

Elastic promises "open"—delivers proprietary

Posted Feb 1, 2021 18:01 UTC (Mon) by kemitchell (subscriber, #124442) [Link] (3 responses)

"Derivative works" aren't necessarily limited to files you edit.

Elastic promises "open"—delivers proprietary

Posted Feb 1, 2021 18:51 UTC (Mon) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link] (2 responses)

At which point, I just HAVE to call "troll". Either that, or you're a real copyright lawyer who doesn't have a clue about copyright - which wouldn't surprise me at all :-)

You misquote legalese. You have too many glib answers. And you've made no attempt whatsoever to address direct questions as to how you'd achieve what you say others must do!

Sorry - that's ABSOLUTELY TYPICAL troll.

Cheers,
Wol

Elastic promises "open"—delivers proprietary

Posted Feb 3, 2021 21:46 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (1 responses)

Err... derivative works are definitely not limited to files you edit. If you have a program A and you edit a dozen files and then release it again, the *whole work* is a derivative of the original, even though most of the files were not edited. (Similarly, if you edit a book and change half the chapters and then republish it, the new book is a derivative of the old even though half the chapters are unchanged.)

Elastic promises "open"—delivers proprietary

Posted Feb 3, 2021 23:17 UTC (Wed) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

In the "Corresponding Source"?

Certainly if you edit source file A and re-release it, the resulting *binary* is a derived work, but source files B, C and D are not.

kemitchell is classic troll, relying on people like you missing that fact ... *detail* *matters*.

Cheers,
Wol