Morality, Ethics, Capitalism, License Agreements and the Law... no matter how you may see that they overlap, they're all separate things. In the end, it's the

Morality, Ethics, Capitalism, License Agreements and the Law... no matter how you may see that they overlap, they're all separate things. In the end, it's the laws of the land that you're in that matters. As far as I know, I don't believe that these arguments on what is a derivative work are anything more than opinion. Settled cases are not equivalent to legal precedent. The best thing that could happen for everyone involved is that it goes to trial and ends with a judgement, and then all this posturing and pontificating will hopefully come to a merciful end.