From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Jan Moringen <jan.moringen@uni-bielefeld.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Potential copyright problem in EIEIO improvement
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:42:25 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1NPrKD-0006Y5-0F@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <23751_1262141343_ZZg0N7E3ZcBp~.00_1262141340.11263.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> (message from Jan Moringen on Wed, 30 Dec 2009 03:49:00 +0100)
> 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.
But IANAL.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-30 5:42 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 [this message]
2009-12-31 3:16 ` Jan Moringen
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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