From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Spam Subject: Re: implementing reiserfs in C++ for a new OS Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 06:54:16 +0200 Message-ID: <1365645117.20040811065416@tnonline.net> References: <71d3364904080706112e72fb6b@mail.gmail.com> <20040809172437.GP1284@nysv.org> <71d3364904080922267e8c14af@mail.gmail.com> <200408101312.48888.reiserfs-list@quinnh.org> <4119273E.1040104@namesys.com> <20040810211951.GU1284@nysv.org> <41194690.5050908@namesys.com> Reply-To: Spam Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <41194690.5050908@namesys.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com > Markus T=F6rnqvist wrote: >>On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 12:51:26PM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote: >> =20 >> >>>Yes, but it protects the expression not just in every literal word, but >>>in the sense of it. Look at the lawsuits over ripping off movie script >>>writers. >>> =20 >>> >> =20 >> >>>Taking the essence of our expression, and transforming it into C++ and >>>Indian, will not avoid infringement of our copyright. Our documentation >>>is as protected as the source code, probably more so, because we=20 >>>haven't GPL'd everything on the website. >>> =20 >>> >> >>I have nothing but respect for you, your team and your work, but this >>is a bit wrong. >> >>Sure the documentation is copyrighted, but it's the actual documentation, >>not the idea behind it, that is copyrighted. >> =20 >> > There is an idea, and then there is an expression of an idea. =20 > expression is not just the letters, or the words, it is somewhere=20 > between the exact characters and the idea. I do not believe that copyright protects ideas, only the written texts, graphics, and music. Take as an example a inventor. If he has an idea that he wants to protect he would need to patent it to protect it. Otherwise only his work can be protected with copyright. I am not sure that the actual invention can be copyrighted either. In this case with Hans, Namesys and reiserfs/reiser4 the actual written code and documentation etc is covered by copyright. The ideas behind the filesystems are not. They would only be protected by patents.