From: Marco Gerards <mgerards@xs4all.nl>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] jpeg image reader
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:46:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8763xv1ckk.fsf@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080115122913.GI31275@thorin> (Robert Millan's message of "Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:29:13 +0100")
Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com> writes:
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 01:21:04PM +0100, Marco Gerards wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I do not think these algorithms can be copyrighted and are in the
>> >> public domain? Can you check this?
>> >
>> > Only actual code can be copyrighted. Algorithms can only be patented.
>> >
>> > Copyright expires into public domain, but this is only theoretical since
>> > they reform copyright law every 20 years to extend it.
>> >
>> > I think only patents actually expire in practice.
>>
>> What I meant was, that the code Bean used is public domain already.
>> AFAIK that's not uncommon for reference implementations.
>
> It shouldn't be. I wouldn't be too sure though.
Bean will know :-)
--
Marco
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-15 12:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-09 17:21 [PATCH] jpeg image reader Bean
2008-01-09 17:56 ` Bean
2008-01-09 20:33 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2008-01-10 10:12 ` Bean
2008-01-12 8:51 ` Bean
2008-01-13 8:49 ` Bean
2008-01-13 18:31 ` Marco Gerards
2008-01-14 16:36 ` Bean
2008-01-15 11:01 ` Marco Gerards
2008-01-15 11:52 ` Robert Millan
2008-01-15 12:21 ` Marco Gerards
2008-01-15 12:29 ` Robert Millan
2008-01-15 12:46 ` Marco Gerards [this message]
2008-01-15 13:36 ` Bean
2008-01-15 14:25 ` Marco Gerards
2008-01-15 13:54 ` Bean
2008-01-15 14:27 ` Marco Gerards
2008-01-15 14:36 ` Bean
2008-01-15 16:01 ` Marco Gerards
2008-01-15 16:15 ` Bean
2008-01-15 20:48 ` Bean
2008-01-21 10:21 ` Marco Gerards
2008-01-22 14:04 ` Bean
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