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From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
Subject: Re: Copyright / licensing question
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 00:46:17 +0000 (UTC)
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Followup to:  <20050202232725.GA6197@discworld.dyndns.org>
By author:    Charles Cazabon <linux@discworld.dyndns.org>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> I'm not sure that's the case.  Inclusion of significant chunks of source code
> (not just a dozen lines or whatever) might bring the book into "derived work"
> territory, and your publisher is almost certainly not going to allow
> redistribution under the GPL ...
> 
> The short answer is "ask a lawyer".
> 

I think that would fall under the "aggregate work" clause.

	-hpa
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