Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755855AbXIQMKk (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Sep 2007 08:10:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752961AbXIQMKc (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Sep 2007 08:10:32 -0400 Received: from khc.piap.pl ([195.187.100.11]:59976 "EHLO khc.piap.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752207AbXIQMKb (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Sep 2007 08:10:31 -0400 To: "Can E. Acar" Cc: Daniel Hazelton , misc@openbsd.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Eben Moglen , Lawrence Lessig , "Bradley M. Kuhn" , Matt Norwood Subject: Re: Wasting our Freedom References: <46ED7A8F.1020304@pro-g.com.tr> <200709161632.21927.dhazelton@enter.net> <46EDEDB9.1000104@pro-g.com.tr> From: Krzysztof Halasa Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 14:10:27 +0200 In-Reply-To: <46EDEDB9.1000104@pro-g.com.tr> (Can E. Acar's message of "Sun, 16 Sep 2007 20:00:09 -0700") Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 604 Lines: 15 "Can E. Acar" 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/