On 3/9/11 11:29 PM, Lawrence Rosen wrote: > To call a "fork" a "derivative work" is to make certain assumptions about whether portions are copied or > merely referenced Lawrence, when forking a specification I'd really hope the entire text of the specification is copied and then modified. Trying to fork a specification by referencing parts of it and then effectively only writing patches on top of them, with the expectation that the reader merges in his head would be difficult for the spec author and very confusing for spec readers. -BorisReceived on Thursday, 10 March 2011 05:15:48 GMT
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