Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 01:21:04PM +0100, Marco Gerards wrote: >> >> >> >> I do not think these algorithms can be copyrighted and are in the >> >> public domain? Can you check this? >> > >> > Only actual code can be copyrighted. Algorithms can only be patented. >> > >> > Copyright expires into public domain, but this is only theoretical since >> > they reform copyright law every 20 years to extend it. >> > >> > I think only patents actually expire in practice. >> >> What I meant was, that the code Bean used is public domain already. >> AFAIK that's not uncommon for reference implementations. > > It shouldn't be. I wouldn't be too sure though.
Bean will know :-) -- Marco _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
