> It's not their fault that people have a completely fucked up interpretation of "derivative work" that includes any combination of two completely separately de

> It's not their fault that people have a completely fucked up interpretation of "derivative work" that includes any combination of two completely separately developed works. Indeed, "derivative work" is a well-understood term of art in Copyright law. So the courts will have to decide if that's truly what they will interpret, or will they take the redistribution & usage restrictions of the GPL as a separable matter.