From: Brian Hurt <bhurt@spnz.org>
To: skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: james woodyatt <jhw@wetware.com>, Caml List <caml-list@inria.fr>,
<omake@metaprl.org>
Subject: Re: [Omake] Re: [Caml-list] Announcing the OMake build system version 0.9.1
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 10:10:56 -0500 (CDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0409060955380.5809-100000@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1094464332.3352.1075.camel@pelican.wigram>
On 6 Sep 2004, skaller wrote:
> > If this becomes important, hire a lawyer.
>
> Why would you believe a lawyer who can't cite a long
> history of case law (decisions made by judges)?
Because they have knowledge and experience that your average programmer or
blowhard on the internet doesn't have. I wouldn't trust the average
lawyer to write code, and I wouldn't trust the average programmer to write
a license.
> So .. hehe .. I could take your module and
> copy the mli file and implement the functions and
> then the interface is a derived work but the
> implementation is not. And in Ocaml I could then
> simply discard the mli file, run ocaml -i
> to derive a new mli file -- and hey presto,
> now the interface isn't a derived work either ..
> even if line for line it is totally identical
> to the original :)
I'm not 100% sure where the line is drawn here. Nor am I 100% sure anyone
else is either.
That "blowhard on the internet" quip includes me- IANAL. An analogy to
make things clear: I can, with a few sentences, explain type inference to
my grandmother. But there are a heck of a lot of intricies and subtlities
that will get glossed over in this paragraph introduction- some of them
not so intricate or subtle. Exactly how corner cases and gray areas get
handled can not be deduced from this abstract.
In this case, I am grandma- I've had the five minute abstract thrown at
me over dinner in casual conversation.
--
"Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive,
difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of
mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it."
- Gene Spafford
Brian
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2004-09-04 16:26 Jason Hickey
2004-09-04 17:42 ` Nicolas Cannasse
2004-09-04 18:27 ` chris.danx
2004-09-04 19:59 ` Matthieu Dubuget
2004-09-05 5:20 ` skaller
2004-09-05 13:20 ` David Brown
2004-09-05 14:31 ` skaller
2004-09-05 16:02 ` David Brown
2004-09-05 16:14 ` Nicolas Cannasse
2004-09-05 15:07 ` chris.danx
2004-09-05 15:53 ` skaller
2004-09-06 0:25 ` chris.danx
2004-09-06 8:17 ` skaller
2004-09-05 13:38 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2004-09-05 14:50 ` chris.danx
2004-09-05 15:01 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2004-09-05 15:44 ` chris.danx
2004-09-05 16:10 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2004-09-05 17:38 ` skaller
2004-09-05 17:15 ` skaller
2004-09-05 16:11 ` skaller
2004-09-05 16:21 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2004-09-05 19:09 ` skaller
2004-09-05 15:08 ` skaller
2004-09-05 15:38 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2004-09-05 17:04 ` skaller
2004-09-05 18:45 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2004-09-05 20:12 ` skaller
2004-09-05 21:30 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2004-09-05 22:41 ` Brandon J. Van Every
2004-09-06 12:13 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2004-09-05 16:09 ` David Brown
2004-09-05 18:31 ` skaller
2004-09-06 10:56 ` Andreas Rossberg
2004-09-06 15:51 ` skaller
2004-09-06 7:11 ` Christian Lindig
2004-09-06 12:20 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2004-09-06 14:12 ` Christian Lindig
2004-09-06 1:06 ` Richard Jones
2004-09-06 1:50 ` Brandon J. Van Every
2004-09-06 9:09 ` skaller
2004-09-06 8:59 ` skaller
2004-09-04 23:58 ` Nicolas Cannasse
2004-09-05 1:18 ` james woodyatt
2004-09-05 1:26 ` [Caml-list] Perl Conjury (alternative to Unix make) james woodyatt
2004-09-05 2:03 ` [Caml-list] Announcing the OMake build system version 0.9.1 David Brown
2004-09-05 2:37 ` james woodyatt
2004-09-05 6:24 ` Nathaniel Gray
2004-09-05 20:38 ` Aleksey Nogin
2004-09-06 0:12 ` james woodyatt
2004-09-06 0:33 ` [Omake] " Aleksey Nogin
2004-09-06 3:54 ` Brian Hurt
2004-09-06 6:39 ` Jason Hickey
2004-09-06 8:10 ` james woodyatt
2004-09-06 7:50 ` [Omake] " Erik de Castro Lopo
2004-09-06 14:52 ` Brian Hurt
2004-09-06 17:20 ` skaller
2004-09-06 9:52 ` skaller
2004-09-06 15:10 ` Brian Hurt [this message]
2004-09-07 13:26 ` David Brown
2004-09-06 1:14 ` Brandon J. Van Every
2004-09-06 2:35 ` Jacques GARRIGUE
2004-09-06 9:38 ` skaller
2004-09-06 11:34 ` Jacques Garrigue
2004-09-06 16:28 ` skaller
2004-09-06 16:42 ` Christopher A. Watford
2004-09-06 16:59 ` Richard Jones
2004-09-07 2:21 ` Jacques GARRIGUE
2004-09-07 6:17 ` skaller
2004-09-07 8:24 ` Benjamin Geer
2004-09-07 13:35 ` David Brown
2004-09-06 7:51 ` Daniel Andor
2004-09-05 20:38 ` Aleksey Nogin
2004-09-05 22:57 ` Olivier Grisel
2004-09-06 0:17 ` Aleksey Nogin
2004-09-06 13:31 ` Olivier Grisel
2004-09-06 19:28 ` [Caml-list] Godi for OMake [Was: Announcing the OMake build system version 0.9.1] Aleksey Nogin
2004-09-06 20:18 ` Olivier Grisel
[not found] ` <41537DAE.1050601@cs.caltech.edu>
2004-09-24 13:50 ` Olivier Grisel
2004-09-24 18:37 ` [Caml-list] OCamlFind support in OMake [Was: Godi for OMake] Aleksey Nogin
2004-09-04 18:01 ` [Caml-list] Announcing the OMake build system version 0.9.1 Yaron Minsky
2004-09-05 1:38 ` Eray Ozkural
2004-09-05 6:12 ` Yamagata Yoriyuki
2004-09-05 12:48 ` Yaron Minsky
2004-09-05 20:39 ` Aleksey Nogin
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