On Sun, 2008-06-15 at 12:22 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
David Woodhouse wrote:
>> I'm proposing that in this scenario, if d is true, b would also be true
>> if they weren't combined, so the transient combination for distribution
>> is irrelevant. And if b wouldn't be true, then you are left with e.
>
> But (b) is permitted, while (d) is explicitly not permitted. You can't
> just say "oh, but if I wasn't doing (d) then I'd be doing (b), so
that's
> OK".
>
> Let's consider (b) as 'you are carrying a knife' and (d) as 'you
are
> stabbing me with your knife'. And your excuse as...
>
> "But officer, if (d) is true, then (b) would also be true if I weren't
> stabbing him. So the transient combination of the knife and his abdomen
> is irrelevant."
No, to whatever extent an analogy works it would be that the stabbing
occurs in both b & d scenarios and the difference is whether you carried
the knife to the scene or it was already there.
No, I think you've completely missed the point.
> The 'transient combination' is _far_ from being
irrelevant. That
> combination for distribution is very thing that is not permitted.
Aggregations are explicitly permitted.
Collective works are explicitly not permitted, under some circumstances.
> That's the whole point in the bit in the GPL which goes
"...this
> License, and its terms, do not apply to those sections when you
> distribute them as separate works. But when you distribute those same
> sections as part of a while which a work based on the Program, the
> distribution of the whole must be on the terms of this License..."
I don't really see anything there about details you have to observe to
maintain a separation. If you want to make some up, go ahead. Maybe
you can modify the compiler to do it for you.
I have absolutely no clue what you're trying to say; I'm sorry. This is
why I stopped responding to you before. On closer inspection, it seems
that what I thought was a rare moment of lucidity from you was actually
Alex's doing, so I should probably go back to ignoring you. Sorry.
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dwmw2