On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 05:04:11PM +0000, Ammar James wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 11:06:35PM +0100, Mattias Andrée wrote:
> > Sorry, it would be a douche move in rank with
> > patenting maths, and then enforce it.
> >
>
> Algorithms can be patented in the US.
>
> PageRank is a good example: https://www.google.com/patents/US628
Apologies, the link should be:
https://www.google.com/patents/US6285999
>
>
> Best,
> Ammar.
>
> > On Wed, 23 Dec 2015 23:05:01 +0100
> > Mattias Andrée <maandree_AT_kth.se> wrote:
> >
> > > Probably not. It would be a douche move in rank with
> > > patent trolling, and you would probably be less like
> > > to win. More likely is that people make proprietary
> > > forks and do not release the source code.
> > >
> > > On Wed, 23 Dec 2015 19:59:08 -0200
> > > Marcel Rodrigues <marcelgmr_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Genuine question: does anyone know of any actual
> > > > instance where some code released as "public domain"
> > > > caused trouble for citizens (from whatever country) who
> > > > copied it?
> > > >
> > > > 2015-12-23 19:51 GMT-02:00 Marcel Rodrigues
> > > > <marcelgmr_AT_gmail.com>:
> > > > > Genuine question: does anyone know of any actual
> > > > > instance where some code released as "public domain"
> > > > > caused trouble for citizens (from whatever country)
> > > > > who copied it?
> > > > >
> > > > > 2015-12-23 19:13 GMT-02:00 Mattias Andrée
> > > > > <maandree_AT_kth.se>:
> > > > >>
> > > > >> On Wed, 23 Dec 2015 21:03:11 +0000
> > > > >> mpu <quentin_AT_c9x.me> wrote:
> > > > >>
> > > > >> > quentin_AT_c9x.me (mpu) wrote:
> > > > >> > > Hi folks,
> > > > >> > >
> > > > >> > > I wrote some tools to design bitmap fonts. Maybe
> > > > >> > > you'll be interested.
> > > > >> > >
> > > > >> > > http://github.com/mpu/fnt/
> > > > >> >
> > > > >> > I feel bad that this whole discussion ended up
> > > > >> > being about legal matters. Because some people
> > > > >> > seem unable to simply copy-paste 200 lines of code
> > > > >> > when it does not have a license, I put one in the
> > > > >> > Github repo.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> You should not feel bad about that. The silence
> > > > >> otherwise and combined with this discussion probably
> > > > >> indicates that we are interested, at least I am, and
> > > > >> have not technical complaints.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> >
> > > > >> > I think I'm starting to understand __20h__'s "copy
> > > > >> > me if you can", maybe it should be "copy me if you
> > > > >> > dare".
> > > > >>
> > > > >> "copy me if you can" is an informal license, which is
> > > > >> actually worse then public domain. Best just the
> > > > >> have a script that creates a new project and
> > > > >> automatically puts the MIT license on it. Perhaps
> > > > >> call it gitinit.
> > > > >> >
> > > > >> > To be honest I feel a bit stupid putting a license
> > > > >> > on four glorified while loops. I'm not sure what
> > > > >> > is the limit for requiring a license, do we need to
> > > > >> > license awk one-liners when we paste them on IRC?
> > > > >> > If not, what was the problem with my repository.
> > > > >> > The four files provided as source are really almost
> > > > >> > one-liners.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> A safe but is that anything more than hello world
> > > > >> (GNU's implementation should be considered much more)
> > > > >> is probably enough for a license. It is not only the
> > > > >> triviality that acyually needs to be considered, it
> > > > >> is the originality too.
> > > > >> >
> > > > >> > I wonder if the people who just complained about
> > > > >> > (lack of) licensing are really concerned about it
> > > > >> > or are just of the same kind of people that find it
> > > > >> > unacceptable to write (x - 'a') in C.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> What is wrong with (x - 'a')? In what context. But I
> > > > >> think people care about the licensing because it
> > > > >> would really suck to have to detail with copyright
> > > > >> infringement issues
> > > > >> >
> > > > >> > Hopefully we can now talk about what I
> > > > >> > submitted.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> It looks great!
> > > > >>
> > > > >> >
> > > > >> >
> > > > >> > Cheers,
> > > > >> >
> > > > >> > -- mpu
> > > > >> >
> > > > >>
> > > > >
> > > >
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> Ammar R. James
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