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Re: [PATCH, HURD][RFC] hurdselect: Step7x, almost complete rewrite finis
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Svante Signell |
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Re: [PATCH, HURD][RFC] hurdselect: Step7x, almost complete rewrite finished |
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Wed, 13 Feb 2013 10:42:45 +0100 |
On Wed, 2013-02-13 at 09:29 +0000, Ivan Shmakov wrote:
> >>>>> 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.)
You couldn't call it a clean-room implementation though. All necessary
information was available (on request) from the original submitter to
the person doing the rewrite.
> Clearly, without Unix being available, GNU wouldn't exist. This
> doesn't make the latter fall under the copyright of the former.
>
..
> 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.
No big deal really, the goal was the same, to increase the POSIX level
for Hurd :-)
- 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, 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, 2013/02/13
- Re: [PATCH, HURD][RFC] hurdselect: Step7x, almost complete rewrite finished,
Svante Signell <=
- 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
- Re: [PATCH,HURD][RFC] hurdselect: Step7x, almost complete rewrite finished, Svante Signell, 2013/02/15