[License-discuss] Idea for time-dependent license, need comments

[John Cowan]

Mike Milinkovich scripsit:

> Well, I think that many would argue that such a work is a collective,
> rather than a joint work. In fact, it seems to me that most of the
> large collaborative communities are running under that assumption.

A collective work is defined as "a work, such as a periodical issue,
anthology, or encyclopedia, in which a number of contributions,
constituting separate and independent works in themselves, are assembled
into a collective whole."  Now maybe you could claim that an individual
file constitutes a separate and independent work.  But a patch?
I doubt it.

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