Alan,
On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, Alan Cox wrote:
> It isn't "policy" its called copyright law.
I know that I said I'd shut up, but I missed in TRIPS where it said
that symbols must be EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL... Could you point that out?
(Just kidding.)
> You don't seem to understand copyright law either. The GPL like all
> copyright licenses deals with the right to make copies and to create and
> control derivative works. It's not "defeated" by four lines of code.
The 3 or 4 lines of code that I wrote as an original expression before
the patch was submitted.
> Is that a confession ;)
No, just a declaration: the code in question was released under GPL
Version 2.
> Copyright is not about novelty, you have it confused with the
> theoretical (not actual) role of patents. Wrong kind of intellectual
> monopoly right.
Yes, perhaps I should have said "original" instead of "novel". The patch
is not "original" as it was predated by equivalent (machine translatable)
original expressions.
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