* Copying include files from IRIX?
@ 1999-01-26 17:04 Alex deVries
1999-01-26 16:59 ` Ulf Carlsson
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From: Alex deVries @ 1999-01-26 17:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: SGI Linux
There's a few gfx/newport include files that need to be added to the
kernel; I found this out when trying to get drawbars.c to build.
I can steal everything directly from the IRIX include files, but I wonder
about copyright issues.
What should I do about this?
- Alex
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* Re: Copying include files from IRIX?
1999-01-26 17:04 Copying include files from IRIX? Alex deVries
@ 1999-01-26 16:59 ` Ulf Carlsson
1999-01-26 18:24 ` Mike Shaver
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From: Ulf Carlsson @ 1999-01-26 16:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: SGI Linux
On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 12:04:27PM -0500, Alex deVries wrote:
>
> There's a few gfx/newport include files that need to be added to the
> kernel; I found this out when trying to get drawbars.c to build.
>
> 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.
- Ulf
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* Re: Copying include files from IRIX?
1999-01-26 16:59 ` Ulf Carlsson
@ 1999-01-26 18:24 ` Mike Shaver
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Mike Shaver @ 1999-01-26 18:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ulf Carlsson; +Cc: SGI Linux
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
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