From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Petr Baudis Subject: Re: Licensing and the library version of git Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 22:51:58 +0200 Message-ID: <20060727205158.GE13776@pasky.or.cz> References: <20060727195614.7EDAE353B04@atlas.denx.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Wolfgang Denk , Jon Smirl , git X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jul 27 22:52:18 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G6Cpx-0005Vj-QZ for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 22:52:06 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750790AbWG0UwA (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jul 2006 16:52:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750800AbWG0UwA (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jul 2006 16:52:00 -0400 Received: from w241.dkm.cz ([62.24.88.241]:31403 "EHLO machine.or.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750790AbWG0UwA (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Jul 2006 16:52:00 -0400 Received: (qmail 9820 invoked by uid 2001); 27 Jul 2006 22:51:58 +0200 To: Johannes Schindelin Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-message-flag: Outlook : A program to spread viri, but it can do mail too. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, Dear diary, on Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 10:39:55PM CEST, I got a letter where Johannes Schindelin said that... > >From a standpoint of copyright (which the GPL relies on), this is not > possible: you cannot include C code into Java. And if it is _translated_ > from C into Java, it is not copyrighted any more. now that's a pretty strong statement - did a lawyer tell you that? (Lawyer in what country? Germany?) Because copyrights are generally retained over translations, otherwise I could freely publish e.g. Czech translation of someone else's English book without any permissions and such, which is obviously not the case. There has been actually similar issue with OpenTTD - it was created by translating Transport Tycoon Deluxe assembly to C without permission of original TTD copyright owner (not that anyone actually knows for sure who that is, after series of company mergers and buyouts). I don't think anyone consulted a lawyer about legality of that either but I believe that most people agree that this is basically illegal (but most likely, noone will ever sue, or care at all). -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ Snow falling on Perl. White noise covering line noise. Hides all the bugs too. -- J. Putnam