From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jan 5 13:51:19 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1164037B401 for ; Sun, 5 Jan 2003 13:51:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc01.attbi.com (sccrmhc01.attbi.com [204.127.202.61]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4516843EA9 for ; Sun, 5 Jan 2003 13:51:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([12.242.158.67]) by sccrmhc01.attbi.com (sccrmhc01) with ESMTP id <2003010521511600100e0kc0e>; Sun, 5 Jan 2003 21:51:16 +0000 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h05LsNBs023741; Sun, 5 Jan 2003 13:54:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h05LsH6U023740; Sun, 5 Jan 2003 13:54:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) To: Brett Glass Cc: Terry Lambert , "Gary W. Swearingen" , Mike Jeays , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bystander shot by a spam filter. References: <4.3.2.7.2.20030104193110.0285a570@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20030104145840.02925620@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20030104131212.03837e10@localhost> <3E120659.3D60EB30@mindspring.com> <200212312041.gBVKfr183480@hokkshideh2.jetcafe.org> <3E120659.3D60EB30@mindspring.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20030104112015.026a5530@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20030104131212.03837e10@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20030104145840.02925620@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20030104193110.0285a570@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20030105121306.02936b00@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20030105130229.029271d0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20030105133110.029406f0@localhost> From: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 05 Jan 2003 13:54:17 -0800 In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20030105133110.029406f0@localhost> Message-ID: Lines: 20 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brett Glass writes: > [snip] Remember, so > much at looking at GPLed code can prompt accusations that anything > similar you later write is derivative and hence must be GPLed. I seem to remember someone making a good case that the mere public availability of the source makes makes those accusations possible and that they have some merit (which would make lawyers happy if there were more people to threaten and be threatened). You must convince someone that you haven't seen the source and that can be tough. I hope that courts will (or maybe already have) make some more (and narrower) law related to software derivation. But they've already started off wrong in that the copyright statute says it don't protect ideas, just expressions of ideas, but the courts have already expanded it to cover things like "architecture" in source code, etc. (Not "architectural works" (eg, drawings) which the statue includes, but "architecture"; i.e., design and ideas, things which should be the subject only of patent law, if anything. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message