Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 26 May 2002 17:17:43 -0700 (PDT) | From | Andre Hedrick <> | Subject | Re: [patch] New driver for Artop [Acard] controllers. |
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On 27 May 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-05-27 at 00:08, Andre Hedrick wrote: > > All of the original code described how to make the hardware operate. If > > your code makes the hardware operate, then it uses material copyrighted > > and owned by me. > > Really. You think if I read a GPL'd example of a piece of code I can't > write a non GPL'd one. Companies use two sets of people to ensure that
It is one thing to take and read a GPL code and write non-GPL. This is different from taking GPL code and writing another GPL code.
> there are no questions (one set write the spec, the other to write from > that spec in a different building). > > > I suggest you think real hard and long about your decisions to go about > > calling derived works from stolen/deleted Copyrights. > > Rude yes, but derived work.. open question. I guess Eben can give you a > reasonably sane opinion if its so important. >
Andre Hedrick LAD Storage Consulting Group
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