| 4 May 2022 |
 @rick:matrix.ciphernetics.nl | Which helps a lot actually | 15:31:25 |
| 5 May 2022 |
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| 8 May 2022 |
 davidak | legally you are not allowed to look at the guix code (GPL) and implement it with that knowledge in nixpkgs (MIT). but i'm not sure if they will sue us | 00:33:22 |
 afontain | I don't think it's about looking I think | 06:50:09 |
| afontain | I think it's about copying | 06:50:17 |
| afontain | maybe worst case you can do that thing where someone can describe how it works and another implement it and you're sure | 06:52:02 |
| afontain | also it depends on the country | 06:52:31 |
| afontain | (for example I would worry less in the EU) | 06:53:15 |
| afontain | now, I am not a lawyer, yada yada | 06:53:20 |
| afontain | * (for example I would worry less if EU juridiction applies) | 06:53:38 |
| davidak | clean room reimplementation is a think. like the wine people can only publish their work when they haven't looked at leaked windows code or when they had access under NDA. not sure how that works in detail legally | 07:01:50 |
| davidak | * clean room reimplementation is a thing. like the wine people can only publish their work when they haven't looked at leaked windows code or when they had access under NDA. not sure how that works in detail legally | 07:02:01 |
| afontain | I mean, what are the essential 4 free software liberties? | 07:24:16 |
| afontain | 4th is about learning | 07:24:31 |
| afontain | I'd be surprised if guix would claim that you can't look at their code and use the knowledge you learned | 07:25:53 |
| afontain | * I'd be surprised if guix would claim that you can't look at their code and use the knowledge you learned [to write another implementation] | 07:26:18 |
| davidak | the license forbids to use the code in MIT code which will be made proprietary eventually. feel free to ask them how strict they see it | 08:14:51 |
 Alyssa Ross | we wouldn't be using the code though | 08:42:31 |
| Alyssa Ross | ideas and algorithms are not copyrightable | 08:42:38 |
| Alyssa Ross | so i highly doubt a bootstrap path would be | 08:42:45 |
 moritz.hedtke | In reply to @qyliss:fairydust.space
ideas and algorithms are not copyrightable Some try to pretend they are but yes | 09:49:11 |
| moritz.hedtke | Like there are patents on that (though patents are another thing( | 09:49:31 |
| moritz.hedtke | * ~~Some try to pretend they are but yes~~ | 09:50:01 |
| moritz.hedtke | * ~Some try to pretend they are but yes~ | 09:50:08 |
| moritz.hedtke | * __Some try to pretend they are but yes__ | 09:50:20 |
| moritz.hedtke | * Some try to pretend they are but yes | 09:50:30 |
