On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 09:02:35PM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote:The GPL might only talk about distribution. But copyright law is not restricted to copying of work. IANAL, and I don't know abou the laws in other countries, but at least in Germany modifications of a copyrighted work require the permission of the copyright holder. It's e.g. a not so uncommon problem that someone wants to modify a 30 or 80 years old building, and since the original contract with the architect did not grant the owner of the building the rights to modify it he needs to ask the architect (or the architect's heirs) who has the (nontransferable) copyright on the building for the permission to modify the building. [1] Look at what Geert quoted in this thread as opinion of actual lawyers. cu Adrian [1] The building must be above the threshold of originality for giving the architect a copyright and there are other laws that might force the copyright holder to allow some modifications. -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed --
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