Svante Signell, le Wed 13 Feb 2013 10:42:45 +0100, a écrit : > On Wed, 2013-02-13 at 09:29 +0000, Ivan Shmakov wrote: > > >>>>> Svante Signell <svante.sign...@gmail.com> writes: > > >>>>> On Wed, 2013-02-13 at 09:07 +0100, Richard Braun wrote: > > >>>>> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 06:51:29AM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > > > > […] > > > > >>> - you cannot commit this code unless I agree to sign the copyright > > >>> papers for libc (which I of course will when asked for). This is a > > >>> derived work of mine. Otherwise it has to stay as a Debian patch. > > > > >> Really ? That's what you choose to say here ? Have you at least > > >> looked at the changes he made ? They're really not much like what > > >> you've sent us. > > > > > I know, but it's still a derived work from my efforts. If I hadn't > > > worked on this, the current state wouldn't be as it is now. > > > > It seems like a common misconception that even the “paid > > professionals” sometimes fall into. The point is, however, that > > the copyright law is concerned with /representations/ (i. e., > > code, in this case), not /ideas/ (algorithms, etc.) > > You couldn't call it a clean-room implementation though. All necessary > information was available (on request) from the original submitter to > the person doing the rewrite.
Yes. But here, in the rewritten version even the algorithm itself is completely different. Mostly only the goal is the same. Samuel
