[cc-community] [cc-licenses] Most important feature: GPL-compatibility
Anthony
osm at inbox.org
Sat Jan 28 14:37:02 EST 2012
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Anthony <osm at inbox.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 1:37 PM, drew Roberts <zotz at 100jamz.com> wrote:
>> On Saturday 28 January 2012 12:42:35 Anthony wrote:
>>> On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 10:17 AM, drew Roberts <zotz at 100jamz.com> wrote:
>>> > Now the original and the copy are both instances of the same
>>> > work but are not necessarily both examples of the preferred form for
>>> > making further copies.
>>>
>>> If they're the same work, and they're both in the same form, how can
>>> one be in the preferred form and one not be?
>>
>> 1. Hand write a poem in your best calligraphy style on a blank sheet of paper.
>> Draw some little pics illustrating the poem. Do some fancy vine and leaf
>> borders.
>>
>> 2. Photocopy it.
>> 3. Photocopy the previous photocopy.
>> 4. Goto 3.
>>
>> Tell me when you reach the point where you would rather have the first
>> photocopy to the last for the purposes of modifying the combined art/poetic
>> piece.
>
> Certainly after the point where it is no longer the same work.
Take the source code to a piece of software you have written. Let
someone who isn't a very good programmer edit it. Let someone else
who also isn't a very good programmer edit it. Repeat until you reach
the point where you would rather have the first program to the last
for the purposes of modifying the software.
The corresponding source of the modified work is not the source code
to the original work.
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