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Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 21:43:08 -0400 From: Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@....com> To: "Douglas W. Jones" <jones@...uiowa.edu> Cc: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@...il.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Denis Vlasenko <vda.linux@...glemail.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] vsprintf.c: optimizing, part 2: base 10 conversion speedup, v2 On Jul 06, 2007, at 11:53:40, Douglas W. Jones wrote: > This implies my bemused permission to freely use anything developed > from my tutorials on the web, not my endorsement of what was done > with that material. I say bemused because it seems far fetched to > claim that I have any ownership interest in this material. The > author of a tutorial text clearly owns the tutorial organization > and presentation of that text, but to claim ownership of the ideas > being taught is strange. The Signed-off-by stuff is sometimes one of those sad but easy little things we do to avoid anybody getting stuck in court over patent/ copyright later on, and to be able to prove that our GPLed stuff is actually ours to GPL. As it's an implementation of a simple modular base-2 math concept I don't see any reason why you need to sign-off; the only person who needs to do so is Denis Vlasenko (the person who actually wrote the specific copyrighted code). The real practical use is to be able to follow the chain of "I got this from [...]" back to its original source, which is especially valuable in the presence of scum like SCO (they claimed some of Linus' code as their own). So I wouldn't worry about it, the only person who really needs to do anything is Denis. Cheers, Kyle Moffett - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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