Messages in this thread | | | From | nick@snowman ... | Date | Wed, 20 Nov 2002 14:16:49 -0500 (EST) | Subject | Re: spinlocks, the GPL, and binary-only modules |
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7% of the code you're takeing from, or 7% of the code you're adding to? Either of these can be abused badly. What do you count? Words? Lines? Uncommented lines? Non-blank uncommented lines? I think it should and can be argued that the 7 second rule is sound for code as well as music. Nick
On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Andre Hedrick wrote:
> > How about 7% of code max that can pollute the headers and not taint the > closed source. > > > On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 nick@snowman.net wrote: > > > Ahh, but that's 7 seconds of *PREFORMED* music. This implies that no > > matter how much past work has gone into it, if it can be run in under 7 > > seconds it can't be copyrighted. I rather like this interpretation. > > Nick > > > > On 20 Nov 2002, Dana Lacoste wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 13:57, Thomas Langås wrote: > > > > If someone snags 10-20 secs of a song, > > > > and puts it into his/her song that's violation of the copyrights (given > > > > that the person didn't ask for permission). But, then there's "what's the > > > > minimum"-question > > > > > > 7 seconds for music. > > > > > > What's 7 seconds worth of code? :) > > > > > > -- > > > Dana Lacoste > > > Ottawa, Canada > > > > > > - > > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > > > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > > > > > > > - > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > > > > Andre Hedrick > LAD Storage Consulting Group > >
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