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From: "Thomas Langås" <tlan@stud.ntnu.no>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: Josh Myer <jbm@joshisanerd.com>, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: spinlocks, the GPL, and binary-only modules
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 19:57:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021120185741.GA8136@stud.ntnu.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L.0211200057370.4103-100000@imladris.surriel.com>

Rik van Riel:
> > The only analogy i can think of is a remix of songs, and several people
> > have gotten into wonderfully large lawsuits over that.
> You can copyright songs, but not individual musical notes.

Right, you need atleast a X number of notes to make it a copyrighted piece,
doesn't have to be a whole song, tho. If someone snags 10-20 secs of a song,
and puts it into his/her song that's violation of the copyrights (given
that the person didn't ask for permission). But, then there's "what's the
minimum"-question, and with code that's hard, and you would probably need
a lawyer and a few settlements in the court-systems, if not even more,
to get an agreement on this.

-- 
Thomas

  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-11-20 18:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-19 22:09 spinlocks, the GPL, and binary-only modules Jeff Garzik
2002-11-20  1:52 ` Rik van Riel
2002-11-20  2:48   ` Josh Myer
2002-11-20  2:59     ` Rik van Riel
2002-11-20  4:26       ` Ross Vandegrift
2002-11-20  6:41         ` archaios
2002-11-20  5:01           ` Andre Hedrick
2002-11-20  5:24           ` Jon Portnoy
2002-11-20  5:47             ` GPL rant -- was: " Zac Hansen
2002-11-20 14:21         ` Alan Cox
2002-11-20 18:57           ` Andre Hedrick
2002-11-20 19:09             ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-11-20 19:32               ` Andre Hedrick
2002-11-20 19:33             ` Alan Cox
2002-11-20 19:11               ` Andre Hedrick
2002-11-20 18:57       ` Thomas Langås [this message]
2002-11-20 19:15         ` Dana Lacoste
2002-11-20 18:32           ` nick
2002-11-20 19:50             ` Andre Hedrick
2002-11-20 19:16               ` nick
2002-11-21  2:25           ` Rik van Riel
2002-11-21  5:10             ` TAINTED (Re: spinlocks, the GPL, and binary-only modules) Andre Hedrick
2002-11-20  2:49   ` spinlocks, the GPL, and binary-only modules David McIlwraith
2002-11-20  3:06     ` Rik van Riel
2002-11-20  8:12       ` Mark Mielke
2002-11-20 10:17         ` Xavier Bestel
2002-11-20 14:19           ` Alan Cox
2002-11-20 14:09             ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-11-20 18:54             ` Andre Hedrick
2002-11-20 19:31               ` Cort Dougan
2002-11-20 19:40                 ` Andre Hedrick
2002-11-20 19:44                   ` Cort Dougan
2002-11-20 19:55                     ` Andre Hedrick
2002-11-20 20:41                       ` Jeff Garzik
2002-11-20 21:15                         ` Alan Cox
2002-11-20 22:03                           ` Andre Hedrick
2002-11-20 22:09                             ` Rik van Riel
2002-11-20 22:15                               ` Andre Hedrick
2002-11-20 22:43                             ` Alan Cox
2002-11-20 22:17                               ` Andre Hedrick
2002-11-20 22:36                               ` Larry McVoy
2002-11-20 23:16                                 ` Eli Carter
2002-11-20 20:49                       ` Alan Cox
2002-11-20 20:01                     ` Andrew Morton
2002-11-20 20:05                       ` Larry McVoy
2002-11-20 18:25           ` Andre Hedrick
2002-11-21 10:36     ` Arjan van de Ven
2002-11-21 13:08       ` Andre Hedrick
2002-11-21 17:02         ` Mark Mielke
2002-11-22  0:00           ` Andre Hedrick
2002-11-21 17:21       ` Jeff Garzik
2002-11-22  6:19         ` Mark Mielke
2002-11-20  4:12   ` Some like it HOT! (Re: spinlocks, the GPL, and binary-only modules) Andre Hedrick
2002-11-20  6:21 ` spinlocks, the GPL, and binary-only modules Andre Hedrick
2002-11-20  7:38 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-11-20  3:03 David McIlwraith
2002-11-20  6:31 Samium Gromoff
2002-11-20  8:27 ` Mark Mielke
2002-11-20 19:09 Nicholas Berry
     [not found] <fa.fglehrv.95g32b@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found] ` <fa.h7et98v.hjm1of@ifi.uio.no>
2002-11-21  0:03   ` Russ Allbery
     [not found] <fa.ni4tkev.3ge008@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found] ` <fa.onsrmsv.1g08thi@ifi.uio.no>
2002-11-21  9:05   ` Giacomo Catenazzi
2002-11-21 16:54 Herman Oosthuysen

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