linux-kernel - Re: Wasting our Freedom

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Date:	Mon, 17 Sep 2007 14:10:27 +0200
From:	Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl>
To:	"Can E. Acar" <can.acar@...-g.com.tr>
Cc:	Daniel Hazelton <dhazelton@...er.net>, misc@...nbsd.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Eben Moglen <moglen@...twarefreedom.org>,
	Lawrence Lessig <lessig_from_web@...ox.com>,
	"Bradley M. Kuhn" <bkuhn@...twarefreedom.org>,
	Matt Norwood <norwood@...twarefreedom.org>
Subject: Re: Wasting our Freedom

"Can E. Acar" <can.acar@...-g.com.tr> writes:

> Do you believe re-arranging code, renaming functions, splitting code
> to multiple files, adding some adaptation code is original enough
> to be a derivative work and deserve its own copyright?

"Deserve"? The copyright is automatic, the author (of the
derivative work) may like it or not.
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa
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