Re: Wasting our Freedom

From: Krzysztof Halasa
Date: Mon Sep 17 2007 - 08:10:42 EST


"Can E. Acar" <can.acar@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Do you believe re-arranging code, renaming functions, splitting code
> to multiple files, adding some adaptation code is original enough
> to be a derivative work and deserve its own copyright?

"Deserve"? The copyright is automatic, the author (of the
derivative work) may like it or not.
--
Krzysztof Halasa
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