Re: [Haskell-cafe] containers license issue

Niklas Larsson wrote:

2012/12/15 Mike Meyer :

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Only if Tanenbaum documented the internal behavior of Linux before it was written. Tannenbaum wrote Minix, the operating system that Linus used (and hacked on) before he did Linux. Minix contained lots of features that was reimplemented in Linux.

Ah, Minix isn't documentation. And it has a radically different architecture than either Linux or Unix (which it copied features from). That makes a successful lawsuit unlikely should Tanenbaum pursue one - but you can't say for certain until after a court rules on it. Which is the bottom line in such cases: if the copyright holder doesn't care, it'll never go to court, so there isn't an infringement.

Same thing with Stallman, do you think he never saw the Unix sources?

Did he ever write anything that was copied from Unix? The Hurd used a completely different architecture than Unix. Emacs predated Unix. By the time he got around to writing a c compiler, there were more from people other than AT&T than from AT&T. And gcc drew more from the lisp community than from the Unix compilers. -- Sent from my Android tablet with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my swyping.