On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 11:06:35PM +0100, Mattias Andrée wrote: > Sorry, it would be a douche move in rank with > patenting maths, and then enforce it. >
Algorithms can be patented in the US. PageRank is a good example: https://www.google.com/patents/US628 Best, Ammar. > On Wed, 23 Dec 2015 23:05:01 +0100 > Mattias Andrée <maand...@kth.se> wrote: > > > Probably not. It would be a douche move in rank with > > patent trolling, and you would probably be less like > > to win. More likely is that people make proprietary > > forks and do not release the source code. > > > > On Wed, 23 Dec 2015 19:59:08 -0200 > > Marcel Rodrigues <marcel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Genuine question: does anyone know of any actual > > > instance where some code released as "public domain" > > > caused trouble for citizens (from whatever country) who > > > copied it? > > > > > > 2015-12-23 19:51 GMT-02:00 Marcel Rodrigues > > > <marcel...@gmail.com>: > > > > Genuine question: does anyone know of any actual > > > > instance where some code released as "public domain" > > > > caused trouble for citizens (from whatever country) > > > > who copied it? > > > > > > > > 2015-12-23 19:13 GMT-02:00 Mattias Andrée > > > > <maand...@kth.se>: > > > >> > > > >> On Wed, 23 Dec 2015 21:03:11 +0000 > > > >> mpu <quen...@c9x.me> wrote: > > > >> > > > >> > quen...@c9x.me (mpu) wrote: > > > >> > > Hi folks, > > > >> > > > > > >> > > I wrote some tools to design bitmap fonts. Maybe > > > >> > > you'll be interested. > > > >> > > > > > >> > > http://github.com/mpu/fnt/ > > > >> > > > > >> > I feel bad that this whole discussion ended up > > > >> > being about legal matters. Because some people > > > >> > seem unable to simply copy-paste 200 lines of code > > > >> > when it does not have a license, I put one in the > > > >> > Github repo. > > > >> > > > >> You should not feel bad about that. The silence > > > >> otherwise and combined with this discussion probably > > > >> indicates that we are interested, at least I am, and > > > >> have not technical complaints. > > > >> > > > >> > > > > >> > I think I'm starting to understand __20h__'s "copy > > > >> > me if you can", maybe it should be "copy me if you > > > >> > dare". > > > >> > > > >> "copy me if you can" is an informal license, which is > > > >> actually worse then public domain. Best just the > > > >> have a script that creates a new project and > > > >> automatically puts the MIT license on it. Perhaps > > > >> call it gitinit. > > > >> > > > > >> > To be honest I feel a bit stupid putting a license > > > >> > on four glorified while loops. I'm not sure what > > > >> > is the limit for requiring a license, do we need to > > > >> > license awk one-liners when we paste them on IRC? > > > >> > If not, what was the problem with my repository. > > > >> > The four files provided as source are really almost > > > >> > one-liners. > > > >> > > > >> A safe but is that anything more than hello world > > > >> (GNU's implementation should be considered much more) > > > >> is probably enough for a license. It is not only the > > > >> triviality that acyually needs to be considered, it > > > >> is the originality too. > > > >> > > > > >> > I wonder if the people who just complained about > > > >> > (lack of) licensing are really concerned about it > > > >> > or are just of the same kind of people that find it > > > >> > unacceptable to write (x - 'a') in C. > > > >> > > > >> What is wrong with (x - 'a')? In what context. But I > > > >> think people care about the licensing because it > > > >> would really suck to have to detail with copyright > > > >> infringement issues > > > >> > > > > >> > Hopefully we can now talk about what I > > > >> > submitted. > > > >> > > > >> It looks great! > > > >> > > > >> > > > > >> > > > > >> > Cheers, > > > >> > > > > >> > -- mpu > > > >> > > > > >> > > > > > > > > > > -- Ammar R. James
