Scope of copyright on derivative works

[Alexander Terekhov]

On 9/29/07, Chris Travers <chris.travers at gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
> Note that Alexander conveniently neglected Mr Rosen's point that:
> "But from a licensing perspective, the entire
> Changed Work is under the GPL; the original components--or what remains of
> them in the source code--remain licensed under their respective licenses."

???

Only modifications are under the GPL. The rest of "Changed Work"
("what remains of them in the source code--remain licensed under their
respective licenses") is obviously not. The entire "Changed Work" is
NOT under the GPL.

regards,
alexander.

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