Ø I'll contact my legal department today
I hope
that you find this to be constructive.
This is a relatively
small piece of code, and with enough effort it is always possible to
take the concepts and
write a completely new code (it really helps to have the original ideas
and the original source
code to look at). Maybe it’s even strictly legal to take the low road.
I think the wider issue
is this; we get to choose, we can work together or duplicate effort
creating functionally equivalent codes. Hence my feeling
compelled to consume some
bandwidth to discuss the
issue on tech-talk.
Jeff
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>Point of fact, LANL copyright and my authorship are clearly stated within
>the original
>source code.
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Some other points of fact.
Strictly speaking - it is a work that was based on the concepts not copied.
No author was listed - not you nor Michael.
We can have our legal departments discuss the issue.
I'll contact my legal department today. They are very helpful this way.
We'll let you know the results. We will also share them with tech-talk so that
we can all learn the strict legal interpretation of authorship. I think this is
not the first time this has struck a nerve.