[olug] OT: more Hans goodness

[Kevin]

One line? How about:
{

Or what about:
while true

I think that the Fair Use Doctrine is going to come up and bite you
really quickly..

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Adam Lassek <adam at doubleprime.net> wrote:
> It really doesn't matter what the developers, or IP lawyers think. Unless
> your position is tested in court, the best you can do is speculate. It may
> be very educated speculation, in some cases, but speculation nonetheless.
>
> I've never thought about this before, but Bill's point about the definition
> of a derivative work is interesting. This whole attitude in the Free
> Software community that using so much as one line of GPL code infringes the
> copyright of the whole almost certainly violates the spirit, if not the
> letter, of copyright law. How would the Fair Use Doctrine apply in this
> case? I don't think we have an answer to that.
>
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Luke -Jr <luke at dashjr.org> wrote:
>
>> On Thursday 10 July 2008, William Langford wrote:
>> > Attempting to claim the ABI can't be reverse engineered is silly.
>> > Hardware hackers have clean roomed lots of nasty stuff. If a company
>> > would be interested in doing so is doubtful, however.
>>
>> You can't reverse engineer an ABI when an ABI does not even exist. If you
>> reverse-engineer the "ABI" (internal symbols) for Linux 2.6.25, your
>> resulting code will break in 2.6.25.1 because, not having an ABI, it has
>> changed.
>>
>> > In terms of legality, what many (prominent or not) developers think
>> > doesn't amount to a hill of beans.
>> >
>> > While Greg K-H's attempt to solve the issue is admirable... "trust me
>> > I talked to anonymous clueful people" is less than convincing.
>>
>> Then go hire some IP lawyers yourself. You and I debating this on a mailing
>> list is far less than what prominent developers (copyright holders, even)
>> think.
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