Re: spinlocks, the GPL, and binary-only modules

From: Andre Hedrick (andre@linux-ide.org)
Date: Wed Nov 20 2002 - 14:50:27 EST


How about 7% of code max that can pollute the headers and not taint the
closed source.

On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 nick@snowman.net wrote:

> Ahh, but that's 7 seconds of *PREFORMED* music. This implies that no
> matter how much past work has gone into it, if it can be run in under 7
> seconds it can't be copyrighted. I rather like this interpretation.
> Nick
>
> On 20 Nov 2002, Dana Lacoste wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 13:57, Thomas Langås wrote:
> > > If someone snags 10-20 secs of a song,
> > > and puts it into his/her song that's violation of the copyrights (given
> > > that the person didn't ask for permission). But, then there's "what's the
> > > minimum"-question
> >
> > 7 seconds for music.
> >
> > What's 7 seconds worth of code? :)
> >
> > --
> > Dana Lacoste
> > Ottawa, Canada
> >
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