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  • From: Raffaello Tesi <lello AT ee.oulu.fi>
  • To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: Copyright of derivative work released under a CC licence
  • Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 23:51:36 +0200

Greg London wrote:

If your work is really a >translation< from one language to another,
(if you took his code and did a simple one-for-one translation
to the new language) then I think it qualifies as a derivative.

No, it cannot be by no means qualified as a one-to-one translation. To make the appearance (layout and feature of the website) look as close as possible to the original (and yet, it doesn't) the new code is really different (also in philosophy, not only because it's programmed in another language) from the original one.

Raffa




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