7% of the code you're takeing from, or 7% of the code you're adding
to? Either of these can be abused badly. What do you
count? Words? Lines? Uncommented lines? Non-blank uncommented
lines? I think it should and can be argued that the 7 second rule is
sound for code as well as music.
Nick
On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Andre Hedrick wrote:
>
> How about 7% of code max that can pollute the headers and not taint the
> closed source.
>
>
> On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 nick@snowman.net wrote:
>
> > Ahh, but that's 7 seconds of *PREFORMED* music. This implies that no
> > matter how much past work has gone into it, if it can be run in under 7
> > seconds it can't be copyrighted. I rather like this interpretation.
> > Nick
> >
> > On 20 Nov 2002, Dana Lacoste wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 13:57, Thomas Langås wrote:
> > > > If someone snags 10-20 secs of a song,
> > > > and puts it into his/her song that's violation of the copyrights (given
> > > > that the person didn't ask for permission). But, then there's "what's the
> > > > minimum"-question
> > >
> > > 7 seconds for music.
> > >
> > > What's 7 seconds worth of code? :)
> > >
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> > > Dana Lacoste
> > > Ottawa, Canada
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