2012/11/15 Robert Kern <[email protected]>: > That's questionable as a statement of fact, I think. There are a > variety of judgements that a court would need to make to determine if > something infringed, and I don't think that just looking at the > original code is a determinative one, though it may certainly > contribute. The possible sets of judgements vary from jurisdiction to > jurisdiction, and none of them are well-precedented for software. I > don't mean to nitpick; I know you aren't a lawyer, and neither am I, > but I don't want people to walk away from this discussion thinking > that they can sue for copyright infringement if someone so much as > looks at their code while reimplementing their algorithm. All that > said, since we are on the other side, it may behoove us to treat it as > if it were true.
You're right, I was exaggerating a bit, and whether or not something *is* copyright infringement is of course up to a judge, of course. I just like to stay on the safe side. > What *is* widely accepted as a legal practice, at least in the US, is > to split up into two teams: one that reads the original software and > writes documentation and test cases and one that takes the > documentation and tests to write the new implementation. [OT] I'd heard of this practice. It always seemed like the legal version of the Chinese room to me -- as long as the two teams are separated, no-one's intelligent enough to know they're violating copyright ;) -- Lars Buitinck Scientific programmer, ILPS University of Amsterdam ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov _______________________________________________ Scikit-learn-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scikit-learn-general
