Re: implementing reiserfs in C++ for a new OS

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

Nikita Danilov wrote:

>Hans Reiser writes:
> > Nikita Danilov wrote:
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> > >
> > >Copyright to result of translation belongs to the translator. At
> > >least, according to Russian law.
> > >
> > >  
> > >
> > I may be completely wrong legally, esp. in Russia.  I personally think 
> > it should belong to the original author if the original copyright is 
> > still valid.
> > 
> > Otherwise harry potter can get translated and no need to pay rowling.
>
>`Otherwise' is non-sequitur. One pays royalties to get a permission to
>produce and/or sell derived work. But copyright to derived work lies
>with translator.
> 
>Otherwise, copyright to reiser4 (re-)implementation of allocate-on-flush
>belongs to SGI.
>  
>
I would feel more guilty about that if their team had not gone so far 
out of their way to encourage me to learn and use their most valuable 
innovation when I visited SGI.  I try to credit SGI on that generally, 
but folks are welcome to point out where an additional credit is needed 
(it is too easy to neglect such things).  I do think that I took their 
idea to the next level....

> > 
> > Hans
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>Nikita.
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