From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Unibyte characters, strings, and buffers Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 14:22:46 +0300 Message-ID: <83ioqxdzax.fsf@gnu.org> References: <831txozsqa.fsf@gnu.org> <83ppl7y30l.fsf@gnu.org> <87r45nouvx.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <8361myyac6.fsf@gnu.org> <87a9capqfr.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <5335C336.3080108@dancol.org> <87mwg9nti0.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1396092170 11318 80.91.229.3 (29 Mar 2014 11:22:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 11:22:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dancol@dancol.org, monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 29 12:22:59 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WTrLm-0008Sn-20 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 12:22:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38495 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WTrLl-0002IS-5X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 07:22:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49783) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WTrLd-00022E-DX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 07:22:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WTrLY-0002C5-MR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 07:22:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout29.012.net.il ([80.179.55.185]:59394) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WTrLY-0002Bv-Ea for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 07:22:44 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout29.012.net.il by mtaout29.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0N37002003E6PH00@mtaout29.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 14:25:19 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout29.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0N37002713Q5MH10@mtaout29.012.net.il>; Sat, 29 Mar 2014 14:25:19 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87mwg9nti0.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.185 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:171138 Archived-At: > From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , > monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, > emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 20:17:59 +0900 > > What I can do freely is discuss design in general terms I'm quite sure you can also describe the fine details of the implementation, as long as you don't describe that by posting the actual code. AFAIU, copyright protects only the form, not the ideas. Ideas can be described and discussed at any level of detail, because implementation of those same ideas by another person will never, except by improbable accident, be so close to the original as to be suspected of copying.