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From: Jan Moringen <jan.moringen@uni-bielefeld.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Potential copyright problem in EIEIO improvement
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 04:16:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <947_1262229391_ZZg0N0K4lExer.00_1262229387.3761.36.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1NPrKD-0006Y5-0F@fencepost.gnu.org>

On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 00:42 -0500, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 03:49:00 +0100
> > From: Jan Moringen <jan.moringen@uni-bielefeld.de>
> > 
> > Basically, I implemented an algorithm (c3 linearization) which is
> > described in an academic paper (see below). My implementation is
> very
> > close to the implementation presented in the paper (although that
> one is
> > written in Dylan).
> > [...]
> > Any thoughts on this issue would be greatly appreciated. I can try
> to
> > provide additional information if required.
> 
> To my non-lawyer's eyes, the two implementations are so different in
> form that they only share the same idea.  And ideas are not
> copyrightable, AFAIK.

Thanks for the assessment. That line of thought did not cross my mind. I
assumed one had to make the argument under the assumption that my code
is derived from the presented Dylan code (which it is).

Jan





  reply	other threads:[~2009-12-31  3:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-30  2:49 Potential copyright problem in EIEIO improvement Jan Moringen
2009-12-30  5:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-12-31  3:16   ` Jan Moringen [this message]
2009-12-31  1:45 ` Richard Stallman
2009-12-31  3:25   ` Jan Moringen
2010-01-01  2:55     ` Richard Stallman
2010-01-01 18:52       ` Jan Moringen
2010-01-02 15:45         ` Richard Stallman
2010-01-03 18:52           ` Jan Moringen
2010-01-04  4:09             ` Richard Stallman
2010-01-04  5:37               ` Jan Moringen
2010-01-04 16:23                 ` Richard Stallman
2010-01-05  4:23                   ` Jan Moringen
2010-01-05 20:45                     ` Richard Stallman
2010-01-06  8:11                       ` David Kastrup
2010-01-30 21:32             ` Richard Stallman
2010-02-01  3:02               ` Jan Moringen

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