Hi Christophe-Marie, Xypron, Andrew, all ------------------------------------------------------------ To: Andrew Makhorin <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Help-glpk] How did you rewrite the cplex API? Message-ID: <CAHLp1YnvDLfxTzAHY8imz8oxLEOJ0rQ-e0-+pAvKZS6A8=u...@mail.gmail.com> From: Christophe-Marie Duquesne <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 01:01:26 +0200 ------------------------------------------------------------
> On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 9:48 PM, glpk xypron <[email protected]> wrote: >> whether API definitions are copyrightable has been >> subject to legal disputes. > > I am a single developper versus a large corporation, > and I can't afford a lawyer. I'd rather not taking > any risk here :) As an observation, it seems that open source is not subject to the same degree of intellectual property combat that epitomizes the IT corporates. For instance, Apple versus Samsung on smart phone design. I've sometimes wondered why that might be. I guess that the open source world is normally too diffuse and too impoverished to bother with and that most open source projects pose little or no threat to commercial products. The SCO debacle was, of course, an exception. I followed these events quite closely because I developed on SCO UnixWare for some years -- SCO eventually went bankrupt: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO_Group#Legal_battles I'm not suggesting that the open source community flout intellectual property law, but the actual risks of getting it wrong are probably close to negligible. That said, I make sure everything I use is clean. Robbie --- Robbie Morrison PhD student -- policy-oriented energy system simulation Technical University of Berlin (TU-Berlin), Germany University email (redirected) : [email protected] Webmail (preferred) : [email protected] [from Webmail client] _______________________________________________ Help-glpk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-glpk
