Note: Not a Lawyer. But according to this stack exchange thread https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/1798/what-license-options-do-i-have-for-licensing-ported-source-code (and according to my intuitive understanding of the term) porting code to a new language would constitute a derivative work since the algorithm itself stays the same. So you'd need to license the code using whatever provisions the existing code has for derivative works. - Nate
On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 9:50 PM Zelphir Kaltstahl < zelphirkaltst...@posteo.de> wrote: > Don't take my words for words of a lawyer: > > /opinion > > I personally think, that something like a general algorithm cannot be > limited > off and away from usage in society. I don't know about the law specifics, > but if > there was a law against rewriting an algorithm, then it would be a quite > stupid > law, as it would only serve to hinder progress of society. > > However, as we all know the law is rarely written by experts. A lot of > stupid > things are in there. It does not always take the good of society into > account > and sometimes is even biased towards protecting the ones in power and with > financial resources. So it could very well be, that this is one of the > cases, > where the law is stupid, or one, where it depends on what kind of day the > judge > has or how well the judge knows software and code. > > Furthermore I think, that rewriting the algorithm into a purely functional > one > is often a significant work on its own and definitely adding enough of > ones own > work to make it a separate thing in total. > > /opinion end > > On 6/28/21 11:38 PM, Tim Meehan wrote: > > Say for instance, I have found an algorithm for scalar function > > minimization on a website, written in C. It is posted with a license for > > use. If I write something based on this hypothetical code, is it then > > clearly also licensed in the same manner? > > > > Granted, I know that this is guile-user and not guile-lawyer, but in many > > cases the transformation from procedural to functional is kind of a > radical > > re-imagining. I usually try to contact the people and ask them directly, > > but was wondering what was the general consensus in cases where the > > original author did not answer? > > -- > repositories: https://notabug.org/ZelphirKaltstahl > > >
