On Fri, 22 May 2015, David Lamparter wrote:
Paul is essentially advocating Oracle, arguing for strong copyright on
APIs.
No, no I'm not.
If I argue "This is how reality is" that does not imply that I approve of
that reality.
I did mention Sun^WOracle v Google to you once - that was meant only as
further (abstract) evidence of the "copyright maximilism" view that
appears to be favoured by many lawyers. It's not directly relevant here.
When I talk about experience corporate legal at Sun Microsystems, I am
talking about experience of legal advice they gave specifically with
regard to Quagga, and whether it was possible to allow Solaris to come to
depend (specifically) on Quagga, even just via IPC. Their view was that it
wasn't - to my great surprise and disappointment.
I have a lot of sympathy for the notion, still held by some programmers,
that the code you write should be yours, and no one else should have a say
over it. Things would be simple, clear and it'd be easy to share and build
on code.
However, the lawyers seem to have constructed a very different world for
us.
Blaming the fellow maintainer for pointing out reality isn't terribly
productive.
regards,
--
Paul Jakma [email protected] @pjakma Key ID: 64A2FF6A
Fortune:
"Danger, you haven't seen the last of me!"
"No, but the first of you turns my stomach!"
-- The Firesign Theatre's Nick Danger
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