Copyleft/guide Changeset - be62a9b7654f

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Bradley Kuhn (bkuhn) - 9 years ago 2014-10-16 02:21:40
bkuhn@ebb.org

Investigate USA-specific-ness of "derivative work"

This FIXME is to remind me to look into this issue later.

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 \subsection{Modify and the Work Based on the Program}
 %  FIXME: I think we actually need to research the claim below that
 %  ``derivative work'' as a term is unique to USA copyright law.  I have
 %  heard German lawyers, for example, use the term extensively.  Is it also a
 %  term perhaps under German law?  -- bkuhn
 GPLv2 included a defined term, ``work based on the Program'', but also used
 the term ``modify'' and ``based on'' throughout the license.  GPLv2's ``work
 based on the Program'' definition made use of a legal term of art,

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