On Saturday, May 24, 2003, at 10:02 PM, Brian T. Sniffen wrote:
Anthony DeRobertis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
On Friday, May 23, 2003, at 01:45 PM, Stephen Ryan wrote:
On Fri, 2003-05-23 at 09:52, Brian T. Sniffen wrote:
The other option, of course, is that the kernel exec() function *is*
a
barrier, Debian *can* be used for real work and not just an exercise
in
ivory-tower masturbation.
Whoa! Those are not my words. I'm not quite sure whose they are.
My apologies. It appears I have destroyed the quoting somehow. Those
are the words of Stephen Ryan
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in Message-Id:
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
Well, I don't believe exec is a magic copyright barrier; instead, I
think we need to generalize _why_ we generally consider it be one.
But this leads me to believe that we may well be on common ground;
what generalization do you see there?
I see the generalization hinted to in the message I just posted: That
no copyrightable elements of programs like "grep" were derived from.
