[Ilugc] Help me regarding IEEE licensing issues
- From: arnstein87@xxxxxxxxx (Arnold Noronha)
- Date: Mon Feb 11 01:28:32 2008
On Feb 10, 2008 10:39 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves <lawgon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 10-Feb-08, at 7:02 PM, Arnold Noronha wrote:
Is it? Does that mean if I write a GPL software that uses quicksort I
have to state that the copyright of quicksort lies with the original
authors of quicksort? (whoever they may be...) It doesn't seem right
did you read all the links given by the OP and SK?
No, I didn't. I still haven't, and probably don't mean to, my question
had nothing to do with OP's problem.
Or are you just sounding off?
I asked a question, I did not attempt to _provide_ any information.
Does IEEE hold copyright for quicksort? You havent
bothered to find out who the author of the algorithm is, where he
published it, whether he as asserted copyright etc etc.
Yes, I did not. Because I used quicksort only as an example. I
intended to mean that in general there are these more or less
*standard* algorithms. So suppose unlike the quicksort case, where
the permission to re-use is not explicitly stated, do I have to
mention the copyright in my code.
Anyway, for
your information, whenever anyone publishes original work, he
automatically gets copyright to the work - and it is up to him to
release the same under some license or the other.
Sure. But seriously, I haven't seen many research papers that
explicitly state the licence under which their algorithm is. There
might be a (c) Publisher Inc., but to what extent is that copyright
applicable, was sort of part of my question.
Does this also mean that if I use a paper as a reference in a paper I
publish (Note. Need not even be algorithm or computer science), do I
have to be vary of copyright issues. Suppose you do some pretty good
modification to an existing algorithm, so can the original algorithm's
author forbid you from publishing your work, citing copyright reasons?
Why does the problem effect me? Well, there are lots of programming
contests around, sometimes you do end up implementing some simple
algorithm mentioned in some paper. Nobody ever takes care of copyright
issues there, so just wondering how legal the whole business of a
programming contest is.
Please note, that
we in the foss movement *respect* copyright. The whole movement is
based on respect for copyright.
Sure you do. Have you read my mail? Did you read any statement about
me not respecting copyright? Or are you just sounding off?
Sleepy, forgive me if my mail isn't coherent enough.
--Arnold
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