in my homble opinion programmers should stop playing lawyers all the open source world need is 2 licenses one like GPL one like MIT and they should be active in the legal way only against companies who try to make money of of the code
Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Omer Zak wrote: > > On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Oded Arbel wrote: > > > On Tuesday 12 August 2003 23:38, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > Than another guy, took my library, transform it to another > > > > language, released it as GPL also, but deleted my > > > > copyright notice. > > > > > IANAL.Having said that, copyright law, which is the basis of your power > > > to limit distribution (force people to comply with your license) as an > > > author of the work (your library in this case), only covers > > > *experssion*, not ideas. > > > > IANAL too, but I think this might be considered in the same manner of a book > > that is translated to another language - but the copyright still holds. > > If hes version does everything (or most everything) the same as yours, but > > simply in a different language - then IMO this is copyright infringement. > > > > OTOH, it's ok to take ideas - if hes implementation is considerably different > > in details that are **not as a result of the other guys choice in languages** > > then he's in the clear but still a bastard. > > In my opinion, if the other guy released his expression under GPL, then > the argument is moot. shtirlitz could take the other guy's stuff, > reinstate his (shtirlitz's) credit and release a X.(Y+1) version with all > credits. > --- Omer > My opinions, as expressed in this E-mail message, are mine alone. > They do not represent the official policy of any organization with which > I may be affiliated in any way. > WARNING TO SPAMMERS: at http://www.zak.co.il/spamwarning.html > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
