----- Original Message -----
From: Søren Hauberg
To: dmelliott ; [email protected]
Sent: Sunday, May 31, 2009 5:08 PM
Subject: Re: [OctDev] Developer Registration Request
Hi
Please remember to reply-to-all such that everybody on the list can take
part in the discussion.
søn, 31 05 2009 kl. 16:49 -0500, skrev dmelliott:
> Dear Mr. Hauberg,
Call me Søren; no need to be formal :-)
> Thank you for your kind consideration.
>
> The package placement decision is up to anybody who is
> familiar with your overall organizational system, and thus
> competent to make it; this is certainly not myself.
I'm also asking the other developers for advice. Would the 'Integration'
package be a suitable place?
> Along these lines, please feel totally free to rename to
> make consistent with the existing scheme.
Is the name, 'integrator', specific enough? It sounds very general to
me, but as I said, I'm no expert in the field.
> Copyright: First, I don't think that this is copyrightable in
> the same sense that the value of "e" is not, and the concepts
> are straight from the first week of everybody's Numerical
> Analysis 101. However, the programming itself is not a
> fact of nature, and thus might be.
Sounds like you would prefer to put this function in the public domain.
If that's what you prefer, then this is just fine.
> Second, my goal is to help make Octave the most solid
> numerical analysis application available. For this to be
> true, there need be as few people involved in any potential
> legal conflicts as possible.
But as long as no Octave organisation exist I don't think it makes sense
to assign copyright to it. If you assign copyright to a non-existing
party then I guess (I'm no lawyer) nobody owns the copyright, which
sounds like a legal nightmare to me.
Søren
>
>
> dmelliott
>
>
Dear Søren,
As long as it becomes part of what is available to Octave users, I
don't have any preferences about the logistics. If it would be preferable
for Octave that I claim copyright, then we can talk about that. The only
item of vanity would be listing my name as author.
In this country, copyrights, like patents, are in and of themselves
nothing. Anyone can get one on anything. They only achieve power
after being tested in court. Thier main feature is the threat of being
taken to court if the material is copied without permission. Since I
would cave like a pasteboard box under a falling bowling ball, my
copyright is not much of a threat.
I have my name on four patents, but perforce the company I worked
for, and wished to continue working for at the time, is, at $1.00 apiece,
the actual holder. This does not affend my vanity since I had no
intention of manufacturing, selling, and distributing these items myself.
Their existance with my name as author made them as useful to me
as they could be.
If this is a sticking point, I will certainly take advice.
dmelliott
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