FYI, I asked the question on debian-legal (no answer yet).
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2012/07/msg00012.html
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On Fri, Jul 06, 2012 at 11:35:34AM +0200, Christophe-Marie Duquesne wrote:
I want the libary to be a fully compatible runtime and compile-time
replacement for the closed-source one, so I have no choice but to use
the exact same symbol names in my header. What I do is I take the
header of the
On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Andrey Rahmatullin w...@wrar.name wrote:
We are not lawyers, but see the recent Google v. Oracle lawsuit.
Of course that's only USA law and USA court, but you cannot get one answer
for the whole world.
I completely understand that there are no lawyers on this
Hi,
On 06/07/2012 11:58, Christophe-Marie Duquesne wrote:
On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Andrey Rahmatullin w...@wrar.name wrote:
We are not lawyers, but see the recent Google v. Oracle lawsuit.
Of course that's only USA law and USA court, but you cannot get one answer
for the whole world.
On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Nicolas Bourdaud
nicolas.bourd...@gmail.com wrote:
I think the best would be to ask on the dedicated mailing list:
debian-le...@lists.debian.org
Hi,
I did not know about debian-legal. I'll ask there.
Thank you!
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Christophe-Marie Duquesne c...@chmd.fr writes:
I am the author of an opensource library that reimplements a
closed-source library.
[...]
PS: the project in question is more a proxy towards the closed
source library than a real reimplementation, but technically I
actually reimplement every
On 07/06/2012 01:22 PM, Gergely Nagy wrote:
Christophe-Marie Duquesne c...@chmd.fr writes:
I am the author of an opensource library that reimplements a
closed-source library.
[...]
PS: the project in question is more a proxy towards the closed
source library than a real reimplementation,
On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Gergely Nagy
alger...@madhouse-project.org wrote:
If it is a proxy, then it is not a reimplementation. That you add a
wrapper for every function, doesn't matter, you still call the original.
Yes, it is meant to be a proxy.
If it would be a reimplementation, the
On Fri, Jul 06, 2012 at 11:35:34AM +0200, Christophe-Marie Duquesne wrote:
I want the libary to be a fully compatible runtime and compile-time
replacement for the closed-source one, so I have no choice but to use
the exact same symbol names in my header. What I do is I take the
header of the
On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net wrote:
To avoid any implication that anything from the headers has been
copied, why not just use the output of nm [-D]. This is the
interface that programs use to link with the library, and is
what you need to provide as a
Christophe-Marie Duquesne c...@chmd.fr writes:
On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net wrote:
To avoid any implication that anything from the headers has been
copied, why not just use the output of nm [-D]. This is the
interface that programs use to link with the
PS: the project in question is more a proxy towards the closed
source library than a real reimplementation, but technically I
actually reimplement every function of their header. If you are
interested, it is hosted here [2].
In addition to the debian-legal list, you might want to speak to
Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net writes:
To avoid any implication that anything from the headers has been copied,
why not just use the output of nm [-D]. This is the interface that
programs use to link with the library, and is what you need to provide
as a drop-in replacement.
I'm also not
On Fri, Jul 06, 2012 at 11:35:34AM +0200, Christophe-Marie Duquesne wrote:
I take the
header of the closed-source library, wipe out the comments and
(...)
In that case I see no doubt that you start from the closed-source work.
I have read other comments in this thread suggesting different
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