On Thursday 05 April 2007 00:22, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> > [citing Michael, Date unknown]
> > "What if Broadcom decides to take our LO measure state machine and
> > put it into the original driver? (The Rev Engineers told me they have
> > a very different weird solution for this in their code).
> > I really don't want to see this happen."
>
> For the record, I want to warn you that you CANNOT COPYRIGHT
> A STATE MACHINE, which is what the above sentence implies.
> You can copyright the actual way it is written ('expression'), but you
We explicitely takled about the IMPLEMENTATION. An Implementation _is_
"the way it is written". Fullstop.
> Whoever Michael is, that comment above about using the GPL as a patent
> like tool is crazy. And if you think that the GPL has any binding
> against Broadcom copying the idea of your state machine, you are
> quite deluded.
Please read my mail more carefully in the first place, please.
--
Greetings Michael.
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