wxPython Licence vs GPL
Steve Holden
steve at holdenweb.com
Thu Nov 24 03:46:04 EST 2005
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Steve Holden wrote:
>
>
>>The thrust of my original remarks was to try to persuade the OP that the
>>original comment about changing the code was ingenuous. If you take some
>>code under license as a starting point then even if no line of code
>>remains unchanged at the end of the process your code is arguably a
>>derivative work of the original.
>
>
> "Derivative work" is not a well-formed concept. Many
> copyright lawyers have made many fortunes arguing
> whether or not this work or that work is a derivative
> work of some other.
>
>
>
Hence my use of the word "arguably".
regards
Steve
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