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Re: [tlug] Open source license (wikipedia)



Benjamin Kowarsch writes:

 > This is your litmus test. Can you reliably reconstruct the original
 > text? If so, it is a derivative work.  If not, then it isn't.

That's in the ballpark, but I'm pretty sure that's not the litmus
test.  The test is the reverse, ie, more like "if you know the
original content, can you recognize something that probably has copied
the expression of it?"

Steve



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