-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Anthony,
Anthony W. Youngman wrote: >> to emails) and the code is so astonishingly trivial it's hard to see how >> it could possibly be re-implemented without it being the same code with >> different variable names. > > This is your clue. > > If this is true, the code has no copyright therefore there is no > problem. I'm not sure how you'd document it, but just put a reference to > them that says "assumes these snippets cannot be copyrighted because > they are too trivial. replace if required". > > I'm not sure how the Debian ftp-masters will take that, but if there > really is no other way of re-implementing it, then it truly is > unprotectable. It's precisely how to document it for ftp-masters that is worrying me. However, thanks very much for the input and clarification. CT. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkmOFTgACgkQ0SwfPjLnaZbFXACfX3+F8POxoOL3WJi78piU3pVV N/EAoNSyH6LmYf85gpOuTLIqDFxWJDkC =UIrk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
