Installshield 6 (inter-proc) patches

[Francois Gouget]

On Fri, 21 Dec 2001, Patrik Stridvall wrote:
[...]
> > > However, just because it doesn't combine to something normal
> > > doesn't mean that is doesn't combine.
> > 
> >    And how does it combine exactly? Both the book and the critic are
> > available independently. 
> >
> > You can still read the book independently from the critic so
> > they are obviously two separate pieces of work, not a single one.
> > 
> >    Or how do you define 'combine'?
> 
> I do not define combine in any general way. It depend on what my intent
> is and on the circumstances. I do not expect others to nessarily define
> combine in the same way either.

   I would say that piece of work 1 combines with piece of work 2 if it
alters piece of work 1 and results in an entity that a user would
consider to be a single piece of work of the same type.

   Now I believe this is a more restrictive and reasonable definition of
'combine' and should match general expectations better than your
'everything combines with everything if I decide so' definition.


[...]
> >    So you agree that gratis, open-source and commercial works are all
> > entitled to the same copyright protection. The last two paragraphs of
> > your email seemed to imply differently to me.
> 
> Yes, it is entitled to the _same_ copyright protection.

   Good. We agree on something! :-)


> However since you give away your work gratis to the end user by
> your free choice, you have the right to stop doing this(1),
> if anything I sell to the end user bothers you.

   Yes, or as the copyright owner I have another alternative: choose a
license that restricts what you can do with my work. I can even choose
to use multiple licenses and tell you to which one you must abide by
depending on how much money you give me. And no matter how much or how
little you pay me, you must abide by this license, this at least we
agree on, so that's good.
   And if I say that you must not redistribute work based on mine then
you must comply. And basically saying 'take his work and then apply my
modifications' still has the same effect: the user magically gets a copy
of your work which is clearly based on mine. So the end result is still
that you are redistributing a work based on mine which is precisely was
forbidden by the license agreement.


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