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To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: Re: Module Licensing? 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 31 Oct 2001 15:37:45 -0200."
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Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 12:15:54 -0800
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From: Craig Milo Rogers <rogers@ISI.EDU>
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>The irrelevance here is IYHO ... it may well be judged that
>since these two portions of the work need each other in order
>to function, the thing really is one work.
>
>You're well into the danger zone here...

	All of the licensing terms in the GPL are subject to change by
a court of law, or by legislative action.  Nonethless, Copyright law
is generally agreed (IMHO, and based on past discussions of this topic
on this and other inappropriate forums) to be based on textual
derivation rather than functional dependency.

	Usual disclaimer:  I am not a lawyer.

					Craig Milo Rogers

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