[License-discuss] Red Hat compilation copyright & RHEL contract

[John Cowan]

Bradley M. Kuhn scripsit:

> Patches are typical derivative works themselves of the original work.

That's a very debatable point, though I doubt there is much point in
debating it here yet again.  My view is that a patch by itself makes
only fair use of the original, though it's true that a *patched work*
is a derivative work.  (That assumes the patch is substantial and not
de minimis, of course.)

IANAL, TINLA.

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