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Re: [PATCH, HURD][RFC] hurdselect: Step7x, almost complete rewrite finis
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Samuel Thibault |
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Re: [PATCH, HURD][RFC] hurdselect: Step7x, almost complete rewrite finished |
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Wed, 13 Feb 2013 10:45:56 +0100 |
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Svante Signell, le Wed 13 Feb 2013 10:42:45 +0100, a écrit :
> 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.
Yes. But here, in the rewritten version even the algorithm itself is
completely different. Mostly only the goal is the same.
Samuel
- Re: [PATCH,HURD][RFC] hurdselect: Step7x, almost complete rewrite finished, (continued)
- 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, 2013/02/13
- Re: [PATCH, HURD][RFC] hurdselect: Step7x, almost complete rewrite finished,
Samuel Thibault <=
- 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
- Re: [PATCH,HURD][RFC] hurdselect: Step7x, almost complete rewrite finished, Svante Signell, 2013/02/15