Tim Meehan writes:
> 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.
What do you mean by „license for use“? Does it restrict what you want to
do?
Best wishes,
Arne
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> Your program in Guile Scheme which realizes an algorithm is not a
> derivative work of the program you read, which program is written in
> C. Even in the case that your program realizes the same algorithm as
> the C program does. The above official article of the US Copyright
> Office clearly
On Mon, 28 Jun 2021, 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?
Gran
Hello,
Le mardi 29 juin 2021 à 04:09 +, Nate Rosenbloom a écrit :
> since the algorithm itself
> stays the same.
This reason is not stated in the Stack Exchange post, and I believe
it’s inaccurate (although, I am not a lawyer either). I think the
reason is that you are reading the original im
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
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, a
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 g
thank Taylan
i already use all that in the past (
https://github.com/damien-mattei/library-FunctProg/blob/master/syntactic-sugar.scm#L133
)
but it was late ,past 1h00 and i forget it, and it was not compatible with
R5RS
thank for your long and clear explainations...
i did not use let/ec because th
