From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Compall Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: srfi-26 Date: 19 Jan 2004 10:43:54 -0600 Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <878ykauf96.wl@strelka.synthcode.com> <87smig3lwo.fsf@zip.com.au> <87zncotvv9.wl@strelka.synthcode.com> <87zncktkjo.wl@strelka.synthcode.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1074531408 3704 80.91.224.253 (19 Jan 2004 16:56:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 16:56:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 19 17:56:33 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AichU-0000zX-00 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 17:56:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AicfW-0003We-30 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 11:54:30 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1Aicdl-0003Gg-Es for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 11:52:41 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1Aicd8-00035d-LN for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 11:52:33 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.195.228.35] (helo=csserver.evansville.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.24) id 1Aicd8-00035D-6M for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 11:52:02 -0500 Original-Received: from csserver.evansville.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by csserver.evansville.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i0JGhtlQ005847; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 10:43:55 -0600 Original-Received: (from sc87@localhost) by csserver.evansville.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id i0JGhs5l005843; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 10:43:54 -0600 X-Authentication-Warning: csserver.evansville.edu: sc87 set sender to s11@member.fsf.org using -f Original-To: Alex Shinn In-Reply-To: <87zncktkjo.wl@strelka.synthcode.com> Original-Lines: 35 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:3248 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:3248 Alex Shinn writes: > But how about the 14-line, not-significant-for-copyright version? > There are only so many ways to implement cut without artificially > using a round-about technique... if you won't take that code, I'll > write a program to automatically generate every possible cut and > post it to the list, forever banning Guile from using SRFI-26! :P I believe, however, that the output of a program may not be copyrighted by the program's copyright holder, except for substantial verbatim excerpts. For example, the template used by flex is copyrighted in the output, but the real generated bits are not copyrighted. Therefore, if you post this generating program, that could be done. Furthermore, copyright does not guarantee uniqueness. From RMS's speech, "Software Patents: Barriers to Innovation": Copyrights cover copying. If you write a novel that turns out to be word-for-word the same with Gone with the Wind and you can prove you never saw Gone with the Wind, that would be a defense to any accusation of copyright infringement. :P -- Stephen Compall or s11 or sirian Charlie was a chemist, But Charlie is no more. For what he thought was H2O, Was H2SO4. asset supercomputer IDEA Medco BRLO Sundevil genetic Blowpipe EuroFed JPL CID Ceridian Lon Horiuchi INS SDI _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel