dan wrote:
> excuse me for arguing a few of these...
>
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 8:11 PM, David Rees <drees76 AT gmail DOT com
> <mailto:drees76 AT gmail DOT com>> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 6:34 PM, dan <dandenson AT gmail DOT com
> <mailto:dandenson AT gmail DOT com>> wrote:
> > the rync algorythm is actually part of the GPL code released by Andrew
> > Tridgell.
>
> Yes, it is, but you can not Copyright algorithms, and you can't
> protect them from reverse engineering. You can patent an algorithm,
> but I know of no such patents on the algorithms used by rsync (not
> that I've looked).
>
>
> I believe this is somewhat of a grey area. You will find many
> references of this going either way on google.
>
I've read the GPL a few times, but still I'm no expert. However, I
think you guys are missing a key word here: code. The code is
copyrighted. The ideas are not. Ideas can be used by anyone, but if
you use GPL code then the derivative work must also be released as GPL
(if it is released at all).
-Rob
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