Hi Sankarshan, On 3/27/07, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So this means that Book ABC will use an unique diagram for Theory 1 and > book DEF will use another for the same Theory 1 ?
No. Same diagram. Pythagorean theorem is the same in all mathematical books. But, examples or problem sets that use the pythagorean theorem is what I am interested in, which is copyright of the author. > I get that bit perfectly. What is worrisome is what are the consequences > if you decide to ignore the "All Rights Reserved" bit and just do it ? As people from the FOSS community we respect copyright, and appreciate the freedom given by the GPL. > How does this affect (re)doing examples that compile cleanly in TurboC > for FOSS bits ? You are addressing software. I am addressing hardware. That's the difference. Most of the "programming" projects are problem sets. So, you can implement the solution in any given language. If it is a totally different compiler, then yes, syntax would be different and it is mere porting. Dan Kegel made GNU/Linux patches for Richard Stevens' UNIX network programming: http://kegel.com/unpv1/ Software is mathematics. Hardware deals with physical elements of matter. [1] Regards, SK [1] Richard Stallmans' Danger of Software Patents. http://www.shakthimaan.com/downloads/glv/presentations/rms.danger.of.software.patents.pdf . -- Shakthi Kannan http://www.shakthimaan.com _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
