Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 12:01:47PM +0100, Marco Gerards wrote: >> Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > On Jan 14, 2008 2:31 AM, Marco Gerards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > /* >> >> > * GRUB -- GRand Unified Bootloader >> >> > * Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. >> >> >> >> Did you write all the code yourself? >> > >> > yes, but i take some code segment from Independent JPEG Group's >> > implementation, such as idct transformation and ycrcb -> rgb >> > conversion. >> >> I do not think these algorithms can be copyrighted and are in the >> public domain? Can you check this? > > Only actual code can be copyrighted. Algorithms can only be patented. > > Copyright expires into public domain, but this is only theoretical since > they reform copyright law every 20 years to extend it. > > I think only patents actually expire in practice.
What I meant was, that the code Bean used is public domain already. AFAIK that's not uncommon for reference implementations. OTOH, color space convertion is trivial, IMO. In these cases you cannot claim copyright, I think? I just do not know the official definition of trivial and if this is true in any case? -- Marco _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
