Questions on GPL for billwg 15407

I think you suffer from convenient dyslexia, Ray.

The rest of your post was equally nonsensical:

"Your question is ill-posed and nonsensical. Carburetors are not subject to copyright. A blueprint *describing* a carburetor might be, of course. In that case, yes, excerpting the description of a carburetor you pinched from a Ford blueprint would make the blueprints for the engine for your "Weisgerber Autos" vehilcle derivative works.

The cars made from those blueprints would not be derivative works, though they might infringe patents. That's a separate issue."

You then snipped the part where I answered your silly question with:

"Obviously the notion is that I am using a carburetor as a component of a larger work, just as I might use some software product as a component in a system. That does not make the system a derivative work of the component and you would look pretty silly trying to claim that. The derivative work must somehow subsbreastute for the original and what I was hypothethizing clearly does not do that. Your sneer only makes you look like you cannot grasp the obvious."

I can see where you may want to ignore having your premise so totally dismantled. It's called denial.