Re: Vicam driver appears to contain misappropriated code

2006-10-17 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Michael Poole wrote: Nathanael Nerode writes: Do you have any evidence to indicate that these byte streams contain any copyrightable or otherwise protected content? They look creative to me. I certainly couldn't write them independently, on my own. Under modern copyright law,

Vicam driver appears to contain misappropriated code

2006-09-25 Thread Nathanael Nerode
In the Linux kernel, drivers/media/video/usbvideo/vicam.c contains *long* sequences which appear to have been lifted from some other driver without permission or attribution, probably by wire-sniffing. Not short sequences, really long ones. This is not just nondistributable, it's actually

Re: Vicam driver appears to contain misappropriated code

2006-09-25 Thread Michael Poole
Nathanael Nerode writes: In the Linux kernel, drivers/media/video/usbvideo/vicam.c contains *long* sequences which appear to have been lifted from some other driver without permission or attribution, probably by wire-sniffing. Not short sequences, really long ones. This is not just

Re: Vicam driver appears to contain misappropriated code

2006-09-25 Thread Nathanael Nerode
posted mailed Michael Poole wrote: Nathanael Nerode writes: In the Linux kernel, drivers/media/video/usbvideo/vicam.c contains *long* sequences which appear to have been lifted from some other driver without permission or attribution, probably by wire-sniffing. Not short sequences,

Re: Vicam driver appears to contain misappropriated code

2006-09-25 Thread Michael Poole
Nathanael Nerode writes: Do you have any evidence to indicate that these byte streams contain any copyrightable or otherwise protected content? They look creative to me. I certainly couldn't write them independently, on my own. Under modern copyright law, everything is copyrighted by