On Jul 06, 2007, at 11:53:40, Douglas W. Jones wrote:
This implies my bemused permission to freely use anything developed
from my tutorials on the web, not my endorsement of what was done
with that material. I say bemused because it seems far fetched to
claim that I have any ownership interest in this material. The
author of a tutorial text clearly owns the tutorial organization
and presentation of that text, but to claim ownership of the ideas
being taught is strange.
The Signed-off-by stuff is sometimes one of those sad but easy little
things we do to avoid anybody getting stuck in court over patent/
copyright later on, and to be able to prove that our GPLed stuff is
actually ours to GPL. As it's an implementation of a simple modular
base-2 math concept I don't see any reason why you need to sign-off;
the only person who needs to do so is Denis Vlasenko (the person who
actually wrote the specific copyrighted code). The real practical
use is to be able to follow the chain of "I got this from [...]" back
to its original source, which is especially valuable in the presence
of scum like SCO (they claimed some of Linus' code as their own).
So I wouldn't worry about it, the only person who really needs to do
anything is Denis.
Cheers,
Kyle Moffett
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