[tur-users] Ion3 trademark infringement
Tuomo Valkonen
tuomov at iki.fi
Mon Apr 30 04:05:07 EDT 2007
On 2007-04-30, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych at gmail.com> wrote:
> Attention! The question: will build-foobar.sh be derivative work from
> foobar? ;-)
This one does not change the original, so it can be considered merely
a repackaging or distribution of the original unmodified work.
> The _RESULT_ of building patched software with the help of PKGBUILD or
> modified Makefile is derivative work.
> Feel the difference! (tm)
No. A PKGBUILD that patches the original code is a derivative work.
It does not merely apply the interfaces provided by the original
work to build it; it changes it. Therefore, it becomes a derivative
work. The PKGBUILD is the source code of its result, together with
the works it derives from.
--
Tuomo
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