Is inherited class a derivative work?

[Angelo Schneider]

Hi!

This has absolutly nothing to do with inheritance nor, reffering to the
name of this list: licenses.
See below.

Michael Beck wrote:
> 
> > ----------
> > Von:  Michael Beck[SMTP:MBECK1 at COMPUSERVE.COM]
> > Gesendet:     Mittwoch, 24. Oktober 2001 15:07:34
> > An:   license-discuss at opensource.org
> > Betreff:      RE: Is inherited class a derivative work?
> > Diese Nachricht wurde automatisch von einer Regel weitergeleitet.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:  Rob Myers
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 08:54
> 
> > Unless they distribute your code without negotiating a deal
> > with you (which
> > is piracy), people will still need to buy your class in order
> > to use the
> > oo-derived class. So this would drive sales of your work and
> > increase your
> > profits rather than reduce them.
> 
> That doesn't matter. The issue is legal, i.e. does the author holds the right to
> future releases of the grid, or can anyone develop new versions of the grid by
> using inheritance?
> 
> In FormGen the court decided for FormGen:
> 
> "Finally, by selling N/I, Micro Star "impinged on [FormGen's ] ability to market
> new versions of the story." Stewart, 495 U.S. at 238; see also Twin Peaks
                  ^^^^^^^^^^

Micro Star made a Sequel to a game from FormGen.
This is not allowed under copyright law. 
Or am I allowed to make a sequell to "Star Wars"?

> Productions, Inc. v. Publications Int'l, Ltd., 996 F.2d 1366, 1377 (2d Cir.
> 1993). Only FormGen has the right to enter that market; whether it chooses to do
> so is entirely its business. "
> 

The court ruling you bring up here as no relation at all to inheritance.
If you would write Office YP, the sequell to Office XP, you do not need
to inherite, reuse, copy whatsoever any code of Microsoft XP to get a
court suit VERY soon.

> Michael
> 
> --

Regards,
	Angelo

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