Clark Gaebel
I just did a quick derivation from http://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html#RoundUpPowerOf2
A copyrighted work, you say?
to get the highest bit mask, and did not reference FXT nor the containers implementation. Here is my code:
If copyright follows reimplementations of algorithms from other programs (because they are considered "translations" of that program), then surely it must also follow reimplementation from copyrighted documentation? I think this is wrong, copyright does not cover algorithms, and reverse engineering is not literary translation. The implications of anything else would be draconian, simply documenting a program would be a breach of its copyright, for instance, and Tanenbaum would hold the copyright to Linux. But in a court of law, anything is possible. -k