Clarification of GPL

[jcowan at reutershealth.com]

Abe Kornelis scripsit:

> > The nearest analogy from literature I  can think of at the moment is X
> > being a  grammar text book and  Y my essay, which  conforms to grammar
> > in that text book. Is my essay a derivative of the grammar book?
> 
> Example is too far-fetched. What if Y were a separate book
> with extensive treatment of the exercises presented in X ??

Indeed, such a book exists:  the _C Answer Book_, by Tondo and
Gimpel, provides answers to the exercises in _The C Programming
Language_, by Kernighan and Richie.

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