From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 1 20:06:00 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B121B7E for ; Mon, 1 Apr 2013 20:06:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jrisom@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ie0-x22f.google.com (mail-ie0-x22f.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c03::22f]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1244DBC for ; Mon, 1 Apr 2013 20:05:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ie0-f175.google.com with SMTP id c12so2679474ieb.6 for ; Mon, 01 Apr 2013 13:05:59 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=bpOJey3plvOpCJ4BT3PDLQwXYMsSAiTdy+m96aMlcSE=; b=iYLodoN+Faf8WBPJOsO50A/7lKRLJX6b3d0M1ARuhTJdlKsVxXy1jcefGLWMHcc+J0 Vzaab8ChJEzvTzQL5WuFyDv7ecWhzg8bUT5R5Z0/YgFZ3tMq7qjnD5VeK1qE4mK8NDVE Obx4AsqcQwCXN0lWFA4HURmNtMzXg6ZuKTl+TL38Ycnk8Kuq8gQ7BDMGPp1LUB+MIyi9 JgvnjF9Kt7nZ3sU4vEXpzHWQjDWIAIu9PjD+1NfxtQHRlJKscudwmh+Rb0IuiXXjoVa9 XU5hqw70eoTDxFZR7yLvLmqJXHgMjEzTHMgXRZHw8iQAZXfJVvm1CxvidnUzpOiSES2l wLFg== X-Received: by 10.42.42.69 with SMTP id s5mr5610485ice.2.1364846758972; Mon, 01 Apr 2013 13:05:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.34] (c-98-212-197-211.hsd1.il.comcast.net. [98.212.197.211]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id c14sm5832827ign.2.2013.04.01.13.05.57 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Mon, 01 Apr 2013 13:05:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5159E89F.9020909@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2013 15:05:51 -0500 From: Joshua Isom User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130307 Thunderbird/17.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: use of the kernel and licensing References: <20130331001209.GA69583@neutralgood.org> <51583C91.5060000@a1poweruser.com> <20130331163143.aabedff2.freebsd@edvax.de> <20130331170902.bbcd8179.freebsd@edvax.de> <51599907.3010802@a1poweruser.com> <20130401213253.36230873@X220.ovitrap.com> <20130401164144.GA56768@neutralgood.org> In-Reply-To: <20130401164144.GA56768@neutralgood.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2013 20:06:00 -0000 On 4/1/2013 11:41 AM, kpneal@pobox.com wrote: > Copyright covers expressions of ideas. It does not cover the ideas themselves. > You can't copyright a concept, you can't copyright filesystems, and I > believe in the past few years a high court in the EU ruled that you can't > copyright a programming language. None of the things mentioned above are > covered by copyright. > > Copyright would cover the implementations of these things. That's why it > was necessary to reimplement much of BSD. > Here's where it gets annoying, copyrights cover implementations, and patents can cover the ideas. A lot of patents use an "on a computer" line to get it called an invention instead of an math equation.