| 8 May 2022 |
 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 |
| moritz.hedtke | * ~~Some try to pretend they are but yes~~ | 09:50:47 |
| moritz.hedtke | * ~~Like there are patents on that (though patents are another thing)~~ | 09:50:52 |
| moritz.hedtke | https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design just read the first paragraph. It protects against copyrights so if you can show you did a clean room design they can't sue you. If we don't and they would sue us we would probably need so show that we didn't simply copy their code. Don't know how hard that would be if it would probably be a different programming language but yeah | 09:59:18 |
 @rnhmjoj:maxwell.ydns.eu | has any FOSS project ever sued another for this? I can't imaging GNU suing uutils, which IIRC is pretty much a rip off of their coreutils | 12:30:21 |
| Alyssa Ross | it's a reimplementation, but I'm not aware of any reason it would be infringing on their IP | 13:07:07 |
