On 8/30/07, Dennis Heuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > however, for completeness, i also put the following > subtraction under the original BSD license:
I don't mean to nit-pick, but if you want to use the BSD license, you need to specify which one. Also, the FSF recommends that small snippets like this be put into the public domain. Copyright is useful only for larger works that would take some effort to recreate. Something like what you wrote would be easy to recreate from memory, sidestepping your copyright. On the other hand, if it's truly novel, then a patent is the corresponding form of IP protection. Many people don't like patents, however. If you want to make it available in the public domain, and you want to make sure you get credit, perhaps your best option is to write it up for academic peer review. Go to your local uni library and learn all about adders. There certainly must be papers on this you can cite; they're just going to be very old. You can describe how your invention is novel, its advantages, and where it would be appropriately applied. -- Timothy Normand Miller http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~millerti Open Graphics Project _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
