On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 6:28 AM, Mateusz Jończyk <[email protected]> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello, > > W dniu 27.04.2014 11:33, Luc Verhaegen pisze: > > Thanks so very much for taking me in CC. > Right, I should have CC You. Please excuse me. I am new to this project. > > > > > I am quite certain that if i hadn't mentioned the origins of these > calculations, > > you would never have bothered. > Yep, that would be probably lost and forgotten. > > I amazed that you bother now, now that it spread to a buzzword project. > Somebody simply noticed the fact of possible copyright problems here. > > > > I clearly explained the origins for a reason: namely so that we could > update our > > code to match in the unlikely case some changes happen, i even explained > that > > reasoning. > > > > CVT is a VESA standard. I did not and do not have access to VESA > documents, and > > the dog ate the Xorg boards homework, as noone seems to remember what > happened > > to the Xorg VESA membership. My feeling however is that this spreadsheet > is a > > rather direct implementation of the VESA standard, and that if the Xorg > board > > gets its act together (for a change), we will actually be able to verify > where > > this information originally came from. > > > > The xls however, felt as if it was meant as a reference implementation, > aimed at > > improving the proliferation of CVT. If graham does get contacted, i > think he > > would agree. > I don't have any doubts that the Authors of the XLS would agree to > inclusion of its > derivative works in XOrg and other programs. > Until that happens, however, we cannot rely on it. > > > > Now, before we do get access to those documents, how are you intending to > > circumvent this claimed copyright infringement without infringing > yourself under > > your very strict rules? > We could just rewrite it using the Chinese wall principle: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design > Patches welcome. > > Luc Verhaegen. > > > > - -- > Pozdrawiam, > Mateusz Jończyk > AEI, Informatyka, Semestr 2 Magisterskich, BDiIS > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: My public key: 0x2C64C488 on hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ > > iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJTXNvXAAoJELLT9LcsZMSI+WkIAIqQPwI/D1LPudUOFygjmnPq > fBMmm7i8f1H7InVRHHavLN8hSGl3XddyKvu1ZTBbEyR8jXFwFElykxFRaGG7RxYs > MWJyz+/f4FYbpRx0xm17QIQr9dfxvHbtStIsiTR4ZuVU0FdB40wQp73ZI/D1EPa5 > y33pjR3ivkbISGPDFDGyueXzdBHW7Sd5gszTTfyh1Pn3Se2L2cEsWPdmIEQXPO5l > tz6i75qOCy+D2UrXNZT9LTbA/lxo5r6WQl9XtnYANAoibgkwz/H8fvHu4DgS5a// > crNyPLd+my0mzEcdxezpKzGpnGtxZe1W3tTKDMZRDjXQ1bnRtrIuonNgQrUdljc= > =EsiA > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > [email protected]: X.Org development > Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel > Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel > -- Jasper
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