On 2014-03-07, Miguel Angel Marco <[email protected]> wrote: > > > El jueves, 6 de marzo de 2014 20:11:10 UTC+1, Jason Suagee escribió: >> >> Robert Scharein’s method of smoothing the knot seems entirely reasonable >> to implement. What’s the legality of implementing his methods? Can we just >> borrow the techniques that he uses in his thesis? >> > > If it is not patented (which i am not sure about, but i have seen no patent > claim at all in his website or software) we can do our own implementation > based on his thesis. What we could not do is to make a derivative of his > code; but if we don't have access to his source code, we wouldn't be doing > a derivative work, just a reimplementation of the same ideas.
I don't think we need to worry about violating a patent here. No, really, there is no "practical" significance in this work. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-gsoc" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-gsoc. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
