This is the mail archive of the
gcc@gcc.gnu.org
mailing list for the GCC project.
Re: Using of parse tree externally
- To: Richard Kenner <kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu>
- Subject: Re: Using of parse tree externally
- From: sam th <sam at uchicago dot edu>
- Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 15:38:09 -0500 (CDT)
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Richard Kenner wrote:
> Sigh ...
>
> That's what the *statute* says! To know what the *law* says, you'd have to
> look up the hundred of cases on the topic.
Ask, and ye shall recieve:
The following case appears to reject the interpretation of 'derivative
work' that would allow the discussed clause in a GCC licesne.
Galoob v. Nintendo, 964 F.2d 965 (9th Cir. 1992) [1]
Here, the idea that a program to change the behavior of Nintendo games was
a derived work of said game was rejected.
To the best of my knowledge, this case is still good law.
[1]
http://caselaw.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?navby=search&case=/data2/circs/9th/2/964/965.html
sam th
sam@uchicago.edu
http://www.abisource.com/~sam/
GnuPG Key:
http://pgp5.ai.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xCABD33FC
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org
iD8DBQE55iEyt+kM0Mq9M/wRAtofAKDPdvRcr6/EnLyTRuaBwbPy1+jntgCbB4uJ
HCZqDwvZHFJysh9Y6xulqy0=
=w6sQ
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----