From 5e195ab80a22a0bf56347e0d2fd9eeb0456d7e73 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Bradley M. Kuhn" Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 07:50:28 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Integrate this short sentence from pasted text. This was easily integrated, but I am now not sure what I was thinking with the FIXME note about linking back to the copyleft definition. The right link is a forward-link to the derivative works chapter, and thus I've added that. --- gpl-lgpl.tex | 14 ++++++-------- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/gpl-lgpl.tex b/gpl-lgpl.tex index f6d2bd5..4c3ec84 100644 --- a/gpl-lgpl.tex +++ b/gpl-lgpl.tex @@ -1126,18 +1126,16 @@ fact, has no control over the rules of copyright themselves. Such rules are the domain of copyright law and the courts --- not the licenses that utilize those systems. -Copyright law as a whole doesn't propose clear and straightforward guidelines +Copyright law as a whole does not propose clear and straightforward guidelines for identifying the derivative and/or combined works of software. However, no copyright license --- not even the GNU GPL --- can be blamed for this. Legislators and court opinions must give us guidance in borderline cases. - -% FIXME-URGENT: integrate (and back ref to copyleft section) - -A -lawyer’s conclusion on that subject will be based on the application of rules +Meanwhile, lawyers will likely based their conclusions on the application of rules made in the context of literary or artistic copyright to the different -context of computer programming. -%FIXME-URGENT: end +context of computer programming and by analyzing the (somewhat limited) case +law and guidance available from various sources. +(Chapter~\ref{derivative-works} discusses this issue in depth.) + \section{GPLv2~\S1: Verbatim Copying} \label{GPLv2s1}