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This is a VERY dangerous misconception. (ObDisclaimer: I unfortunately cannot speak to Canadian or B.C. statute or caselaw, per se, and can...
Good. You have my essential argument. Under copyright law a derived work does not modify the original. It contains the original. Thus if I take a photograph you have taken and paste it, completely unmodified into my canvas, and surround it by my own painting, then my work is a derived work of yours. Your copyright applies to my work as well as my own copyright. Modification is not needed. However, Redhat DOES mbuttively modify the kernel.
Note the first paragraph. "Mere aggregation of two programs means putting them side by side on the same CD-ROM or hard disk. We use this term in the case where they are separate programs...
No, the GPL is stating that "mere aggregation" is OK. You say that the "mere" in that sentence is irrelevant. Why was it placed there? It is not defined in the text and thus the common dictionary definition of "mere" applies. You cannot simply throw out words from a legal document because you do not like them.
That's colourful, but -- to be blunt -- consbreastutes rationalising from a false premise. If you start...
"aggregation" means that a bunch of disparate things are lumped together in some way. "mere" that that is the only relationship that they have, that they happen to have been lumped together. It implies that they do not rely on each other, that they are independent of each other. That if the other were to be entirely changed for some other thing (pictures of my summer holidays) it would make no difference to the function of the first.
I do agree that it will be hard to get me to change my mind. It has happened in other arguments, so it is not impossible. But simply telling me that you disagree, and then presenting arguments in which you simply throw away terms in the license to make your argument will not do it.
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