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From: mhyman@hsfmsh.UUCP (Marco S. Hyman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: libg++ and copylefts
Summary: Copyright includes all rights to derivative works
Message-ID: <1085@hsfmsh.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jul 89 14:59:44 GMT
References: <2053@dataio.Data-IO.COM> <6590206@hplsla.HP.COM>
Reply-To: mhyman@hsfmsh.UUCP (Marco S. Hyman)
Organization: SoftCom, Inc. San Francisco
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In article <6590206@hplsla.HP.COM> jima@hplsla.HP.COM (Jim Adcock) writes:
> How is this different than if I send a copy of my listing to some [hypothetical]
> Postscript clone that in the process of generating all those pretty black dots
> on white paper makes an intermediate representation that includes the notice:
> 
> Copyright 1992 JoeSchmuck Corporation
> 
> Did my brilliant new novel that I printed turn into the property of JoeSchmuck?

One of the rights protected by copyright is the *exclusive* right to
all derivative works.  In the example above the intermediate
representation is a derivative of the original copyrighted work and
therefore falls under the rights of the original auther.

In the case of including a library header file, however, who is deriving
work from whom?  I think fair use enters the game about here. 
Ask your lawyers.

--marc
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//Marco S. Hyman
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