Combining GPL and non-GPL code

[John Cowan]

David Woolley scripsit:

> This might be the case for US law.  It appears to be the intent of UK 
> law that it is not the case of UK law, as there is copyright in 
> databases, which I believe is intended to cover exactly that case.

U.K. law uses a "sweat of the brow" standard, whereby things like the
white pages *are* copyright; the U.S., by its Constitution, uses an
"originality" standard, which sets a higher barrier.

> IANAL

/me too.

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