Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 09:18:33 -0200 From: "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" <unixmania@gmail.com> To: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=" <des@des.no> Cc: ancelgray <ancelgray@yahoo.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Patrick_Lamaizi=E8re?= <patfbsd@davenulle.org> Subject: Re: Hardware support for AMD Geode CS5536 audio? Message-ID: <e71790db0811280318v60b8afffp60c04e661c62148d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <86hc5syylw.fsf@ds4.des.no> References: <20080121170155.GC51116@hamlet.SetFilePointer.com> <20713056.post@talk.nabble.com> <20081127221007.31c07ed8@baby-jane> <86hc5syylw.fsf@ds4.des.no>
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On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 7:43 AM, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav <des@des.no> wrote: > Patrick Lamaizi=E8re <patfbsd@davenulle.org> writes: >> You cannot include a file under the GPL license without being >> contaminated. Even a simple .h with only some #define. This is not correct, as DES explained. Anyway, the amd5536.h file has a much more serious problem: it contains a license statement but not the name of the copyright owner, which is mandatory. Anonymous contents can not be licensed. > On the contrary, as was settled in SCO v. IBM, constant and structure > definitions are not copyrightable if they are dictated by external > factors, such as compatibility with existing software or hardware. > > There are even cases in which actual code is not copyrightable, > specifically if the algorithm it implements is so simple that no > reasonable programmer would have implemented it in any other way. > > (SCO tried to argue, among other things, that Linux had stolen errno.h > from SCO Unix) > > DES > -- > Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no I mostly agree with you, but considering my previous experiences with GPL-ed header files and their copyright owners(1), I would prefer not to take the risk. Reference 1. http://cvsweb.xfree86.org/cvsweb/xc/lib/GLw/README.txt?rev=3D1.2 --=20 cd /usr/ports/sysutils/life make clean
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