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Re: [PATCH, HURD][RFC] hurdselect: Step7x, almost complete rewrite finis
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Ivan Shmakov |
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Re: [PATCH, HURD][RFC] hurdselect: Step7x, almost complete rewrite finished |
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Wed, 13 Feb 2013 09:29:22 +0000 |
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>>>>> Svante Signell <svante.signell@gmail.com> writes:
>>>>> On Wed, 2013-02-13 at 09:07 +0100, Richard Braun wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 06:51:29AM +0100, Svante Signell wrote:
[…]
>>> - you cannot commit this code unless I agree to sign the copyright
>>> papers for libc (which I of course will when asked for). This is a
>>> derived work of mine. Otherwise it has to stay as a Debian patch.
>> Really ? That's what you choose to say here ? Have you at least
>> looked at the changes he made ? They're really not much like what
>> you've sent us.
> I know, but it's still a derived work from my efforts. If I hadn't
> worked on this, the current state wouldn't be as it is now.
It seems like a common misconception that even the “paid
professionals” sometimes fall into. The point is, however, that
the copyright law is concerned with /representations/ (i. e.,
code, in this case), not /ideas/ (algorithms, etc.)
Clearly, without Unix being available, GNU wouldn't exist. This
doesn't make the latter fall under the copyright of the former.
Also, there're the cases when the code in question is not
copyrightable at all, as not being a “creative work.” For
instance, when writing a device driver, there may be certain
procedures prescribed by the device's own specification, that
allow for virtually only a single implementation. If that's the
case, the code for such an implementation may be
non-copyrightable.
PS. Note, however, that I haven't reviewed the code being discussed,
and thus have no opinion on whether any of the Svante's code has
made its way (perhaps with trivial modifications) into the
Samuel's patch, or not.
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- Re: [PATCH,HURD][RFC] hurdselect: Step7x, almost complete rewrite finished, (continued)
- Re: [PATCH,HURD][RFC] hurdselect: Step7x, almost complete rewrite finished, Samuel Thibault, 2013/02/12
- Re: [PATCH,HURD][RFC] hurdselect: Step7x, almost complete rewrite finished, Samuel Thibault, 2013/02/12
- Re: [PATCH,HURD][RFC] hurdselect: Step7x, almost complete rewrite finished, Svante Signell, 2013/02/13
- Re: [PATCH,HURD][RFC] hurdselect: Step7x, almost complete rewrite finished, Samuel Thibault, 2013/02/13
- Re: [PATCH,HURD][RFC] hurdselect: Step7x, almost complete rewrite finished, Svante Signell, 2013/02/13
- Re: [PATCH,HURD][RFC] hurdselect: Step7x, almost complete rewrite finished, Samuel Thibault, 2013/02/13
- Re: [PATCH,HURD][RFC] hurdselect: Step7x, almost complete rewrite finished, Svante Signell, 2013/02/13
- Re: [PATCH, HURD][RFC] hurdselect: Step7x, almost complete rewrite finished, Thomas Schwinge, 2013/02/13
- Re: [PATCH,HURD][RFC] hurdselect: Step7x, almost complete rewrite finished, Richard Braun, 2013/02/13
- Re: [PATCH,HURD][RFC] hurdselect: Step7x, almost complete rewrite finished, Svante Signell, 2013/02/13
- Re: [PATCH, HURD][RFC] hurdselect: Step7x, almost complete rewrite finished,
Ivan Shmakov <=
- Re: [PATCH, HURD][RFC] hurdselect: Step7x, almost complete rewrite finished, Svante Signell, 2013/02/13
- Re: [PATCH, HURD][RFC] hurdselect: Step7x, almost complete rewrite finished, Samuel Thibault, 2013/02/13
- Re: [PATCH, HURD][RFC] hurdselect: Step7x, almost complete rewrite finished, Samuel Thibault, 2013/02/13
- Re: [PATCH,HURD][RFC] hurdselect: Step7x, almost complete rewrite finished, Samuel Thibault, 2013/02/14
- Re: [PATCH,HURD][RFC] hurdselect: Step7x, almost complete rewrite finished, Samuel Thibault, 2013/02/14
- Re: [PATCH,HURD][RFC] hurdselect: Step7x, almost complete rewrite finished, Svante Signell, 2013/02/14
- Re: [PATCH,HURD][RFC] hurdselect: Step7x, almost complete rewrite finished, Samuel Thibault, 2013/02/14
- Re: [PATCH,HURD][RFC] hurdselect: Step7x, almost complete rewrite finished, Svante Signell, 2013/02/14
- Re: [PATCH,HURD][RFC] hurdselect: Step7x, almost complete rewrite finished, Samuel Thibault, 2013/02/14
- Re: [PATCH,HURD][RFC] hurdselect: Step7x, almost complete rewrite finished, Samuel Thibault, 2013/02/14