Re: [PATCH, HURD][RFC] hurdselect: Step7x, almost complete rewrite finished

[Samuel Thibault]

Svante Signell, le Wed 13 Feb 2013 10:42:45 +0100, a écrit :
> On Wed, 2013-02-13 at 09:29 +0000, Ivan Shmakov wrote:
> > >>>>> Svante Signell <svante.signell@gmail.com> writes:
> > >>>>> On Wed, 2013-02-13 at 09:07 +0100, Richard Braun wrote:
> > >>>>> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 06:51:29AM +0100, Svante Signell wrote:
> > 
> > […]
> > 
> >  >>> - you cannot commit this code unless I agree to sign the copyright
> >  >>> papers for libc (which I of course will when asked for).  This is a
> >  >>> derived work of mine.  Otherwise it has to stay as a Debian patch.
> > 
> >  >> Really ?  That's what you choose to say here ?  Have you at least
> >  >> looked at the changes he made ?  They're really not much like what
> >  >> you've sent us.
> > 
> >  > I know, but it's still a derived work from my efforts.  If I hadn't
> >  > worked on this, the current state wouldn't be as it is now.
> > 
> >     It seems like a common misconception that even the “paid
> >     professionals” sometimes fall into.  The point is, however, that
> >     the copyright law is concerned with /representations/ (i. e.,
> >     code, in this case), not /ideas/ (algorithms, etc.)
> 
> You couldn't call it a clean-room implementation though. All necessary
> information was available (on request) from the original submitter to
> the person doing the rewrite.

Yes. But here, in the rewritten version even the algorithm itself is
completely different. Mostly only the goal is the same.

Samuel