Which License should I pick?

[Mahesh T. Pai]

Scott Long said on Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 02:22:54PM -0800,:

 > derived work, then I've just made a "binary only" distribution of Emacs, 
 > therefore violating the GPL. This would mean that in order to exchange 
 > such snapshots, people would have to make the source code to Emacs 
 > available from the same location, correct?

<snip> 
 
 > instructions from the original binary on disk. My format is different -- 
 > it only contains the DIFFERENCES between what is in memory and what is on 
 > disk. So I'm wondering if my snapshots are derived works or not.


So,  your program  creates something  similar  to the  diff comand  on
*nixes, as I  gather. It seems to me that  Your difference file cannot
be used for any purpose.

If so, your difference file is  neither a work, nor a derived work and
the question is a non-issue.

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