Date: 05 Jan 2003 13:54:17 -0800 From: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@attbi.com>, Mike Jeays <mj001@rogers.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bystander shot by a spam filter. Message-ID: <dj7kdjmfee.kdj@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20030105133110.029406f0@localhost> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20030104193110.0285a570@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20030104145840.02925620@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20030104131212.03837e10@localhost> <3E120659.3D60EB30@mindspring.com> <200212312041.gBVKfr183480@hokkshideh2.jetcafe.org> <3E120659.3D60EB30@mindspring.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20030104112015.026a5530@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20030104131212.03837e10@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20030104145840.02925620@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20030104193110.0285a570@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20030105121306.02936b00@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20030105130229.029271d0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20030105133110.029406f0@localhost>
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Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> writes: > [snip] Remember, so > much at looking at GPLed code can prompt accusations that anything > similar you later write is derivative and hence must be GPLed. I seem to remember someone making a good case that the mere public availability of the source makes makes those accusations possible and that they have some merit (which would make lawyers happy if there were more people to threaten and be threatened). You must convince someone that you haven't seen the source and that can be tough. I hope that courts will (or maybe already have) make some more (and narrower) law related to software derivation. But they've already started off wrong in that the copyright statute says it don't protect ideas, just expressions of ideas, but the courts have already expanded it to cover things like "architecture" in source code, etc. (Not "architectural works" (eg, drawings) which the statue includes, but "architecture"; i.e., design and ideas, things which should be the subject only of patent law, if anything. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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