Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752522Ab3FYBQw (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Jun 2013 21:16:52 -0400 Received: from mail.lang.hm ([64.81.33.126]:49446 "EHLO bifrost.lang.hm" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751044Ab3FYBQv (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Jun 2013 21:16:51 -0400 Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 17:15:14 -0700 (PDT) From: David Lang X-X-Sender: dlang@asgard.lang.hm To: Christian Stroetmann cc: richard -rw- weinberger , Linux Kernel , Linux FS Devel , Tux3 , Andreas Karlsson , Daniel Phillips , Pavel Machek Subject: Re: Tux3 Report: Meet Shardmap, the designated successor of HTree In-Reply-To: <51C8E583.3000701@ontolab.com> Message-ID: References: <1EC23D2B9975384993D85B5DB93AAE8860E5A2@sisaex02sj> <51C353C6.2070406@ontolinux.com> <20130624141835.GA23245@amd.pavel.ucw.cz> <51C862CC.1010606@ontolinux.com> <51C86817.6030304@proxel.se> <51C87FBD.2000501@ontolinux.com> <51C8E583.3000701@ontolab.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.02 (DEB 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1589 Lines: 34 On Tue, 25 Jun 2013, Christian Stroetmann wrote: > Dear Mr. Richard Weinberger: > > Thank you very much for the reminder and the prove again that a profound > discussion seems not to be possible. Even more important is the point that > the discussion related with the ReiserFS was different than this discussion, > because this time I have not presented the LogHashFS to the open source > community, but another person has taken copyright descriptions from my > websites and wanted to make it an open source project and this even by the > support of another company, which by the way has its very own business > strategy. unless they copied your descriptions pretty close to word for word it's not a copyright violation. It's perfectly legal to take the ideas from one document and write a new document that explains those ideas. The copyright is on the exact text, not on the ideas. Patents give you the right to the idea, Copyright only gives you the right to the particular expression of the idea. If you published a paper explaining the concept of a LogHashFS that contained no code, then anyone who actually wrote a filesystem implementing the ideas in your paper could not possibly be violating your copyright (unless they included too much of your paper in comments), because they wrote code, not a paper. David Lang -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/