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Quicksort is an algorithm, a copyright on it would not hold up, but a creative use of it may hold up. Kafka is not part of the public domain, but available thr
by iblaine 7y ago
Quicksort is an algorithm, a copyright on it would not hold up, but a creative use of it may hold up. Kafka is not part of the public domain, but available through an open source license, that AWS is arguably exploiting to make some money off the back of open source contributors.
- DVassallo 7y agoTrue, but for all intents and purposes, it's basically public domain with some attribution clauses and litigation indemnity: "Grant of Copyright License. Subject to the terms and conditions of this License, each Contributor hereby grants to You a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license to reproduce, prepare Derivative Works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute the Work and such Derivative Works in Source or Object form." https://github.com/apache/kafka/blob/trunk/LICENSE#L67-L72 https://github.com/apache/kafka/blob/trunk/LICENSE#L67-L72