On Friday 15 June 2007 15:28:29 Alexandre Oliva wrote:
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> On Jun 15, 2007, Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> wrote:
> > On Thursday 14 June 2007 22:25:57 Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> >> Is the signature not derived from the bits in the GPLed component, as
> >> much as it is derived from the key?
> >
> > Actually, you can't copyright, trademark, or patent a number.
>
> Agreed.  And this counter-argument of yours is a distraction.
>
> I was careful to not talk about "derived work". 

"Is the signature not derived from X as much as it is derived from Y."

"I was careful to not talk about "derived work"."

Which personality of yours am I currently addressing?

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> Please read it again 
> under this clarification (that I'm pretty sure I'd already made
> before, but it's getting hard to keep track of everything in this
> thread ;-)

I'm going to stop feeding the troll now...

Rob
-- 
"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code."
  - Ken Thompson.
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