wxPython Licence vs GPL

Steve Holden steve at holdenweb.com
Thu Nov 24 03:46:04 EST 2005


Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Steve Holden wrote:
> 
> 
>>The thrust of my original remarks was to try to persuade the OP that the 
>>original comment about changing the code was ingenuous. If you take some 
>>code under license as a starting point then even if no line of code 
>>remains unchanged at the end of the process your code is arguably a 
>>derivative work of the original.
> 
> 
> "Derivative work" is not a well-formed concept. Many 
> copyright lawyers have made many fortunes arguing 
> whether or not this work or that work is a derivative 
> work of some other.
> 
> 
> 
Hence my use of the word "arguably".

regards
  Steve
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