From b8f084be3a6651a1a3e3710d921e3e2b724b394a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Bradley M. Kuhn" Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 10:10:41 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Incorporate pasted text as chapter's introduction. The pasted text, moved in an earlier commit to this chapter, is now incorporated as the introduction for the chapter on derivative works. Changes also included to the previous introduction so it properly flows from the new text. --- gpl-lgpl.tex | 20 +++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/gpl-lgpl.tex b/gpl-lgpl.tex index 4c3ec84..3994694 100644 --- a/gpl-lgpl.tex +++ b/gpl-lgpl.tex @@ -1183,19 +1183,21 @@ on making a profit from Free Software redistribution.) \chapter{Derivative Works: Statute and Case Law} \label{derivative-works} -% FIXME-URGENT: integrate -This principle often causes theoretical or -speculative dispute among lawyers, because ``the work'' is not a unit of -computer programming. In order to determine whether a ``routine'' an +As described in the \hyperref[copyleft-definition]{earlier general discussion + of copyleft}, strong copyleft licenses such as the GPL seek to uphold +software freedom via the copyright system. This principle often causes +theoretical or speculative dispute among lawyers, because ``the work'' --- +the primary unit of consideration under most copyright rules -- is not a unit +of computer programming. In order to determine whether a ``routine'' an ``object'', a ``function'', a ``library'' or any other unit of software is part of one ``work'' when combined with other GPL’d code, we must ask a question that copyright law will not directly answer in the same technical -terms. (This issue -%END FIXME-URGENT +terms. -We digress for this chapter from our discussion of GPL's exact text to -consider the matter of derivative works --- a concept that we must -understand fully before considering GPLv2~\S\S2--3\@. The GPL, and Free +Therefore, this chapter digresses from discussion of GPL's exact text to +consider the matter of combined and/or derivative works --- a concept that we must +understand fully before considering GPLv2~\S\S2--3\@. At least under USA +copyright law, The GPL, and Free Software licensing in general, relies critically on the concept of ``derivative work'' since software that is ``independent,'' (i.e., not ``derivative'') of Free Software need not abide by the terms of the