From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by neteng.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id KAA65602 for ; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 10:23:47 -0800 (PST) Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id KAA06750 for linux-list; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 10:22:58 -0800 (PST) mail_from (owner-linux@relay.engr.sgi.com) Received: from sgi.com (sgi.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.37]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id KAA85952 for ; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 10:22:57 -0800 (PST) mail_from (shaver@netscape.com) Received: from netscape.com (h-205-217-237-46.netscape.com [205.217.237.46]) by sgi.com (980327.SGI.8.8.8-aspam/980304.SGI-aspam: SGI does not authorize the use of its proprietary systems or networks for unsolicited or bulk email from the Internet.) via ESMTP id KAA08768 for ; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 10:22:55 -0800 (PST) mail_from (shaver@netscape.com) Received: from tintin.mcom.com (tintin.mcom.com [205.217.233.42]) by netscape.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA27612 for ; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 10:22:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from netscape.com ([206.222.251.11]) by tintin.mcom.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.01) with ESMTP id F66J2600.RRP; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 10:22:54 -0800 Message-ID: <36AE0859.D162C839@netscape.com> Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 13:24:25 -0500 From: Mike Shaver Organization: Just Another Snake Cult X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.0-pre7-ac1 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ulf Carlsson CC: SGI Linux Subject: Re: Copying include files from IRIX? References: <19990126175936.A414@bun.falkenberg.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Ulf Carlsson wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 12:04:27PM -0500, Alex deVries wrote: > > I can steal everything directly from the IRIX include files, but I wonder > > about copyright issues. > > > > What should I do about this? > > They can't copyright an interface. But that's not what Alex is talking about. SGI can't prevent us (should they even want to!) from writing headers that correspond to the interface, but they could certainly protect their expression of that interface. Mike -- 87087.51 71746.30