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No, that's bullshit. https://github.com/skypeopensource/epycs/blob/master/sources/skypkt/decode41.c#L405 https://github.com/skypeopensource/epycs/blob/master/s
by daeken 15y ago
No, that's bullshit. https://github.com/skypeopensource/epycs/blob/master/sources/skypkt/decode41.c#L405 https://github.com/skypeopensource/epycs/blob/master/sources...
That function right there (and the vast majority of the rest of the file) is a straight decompiled version from Skype. You even use the register names and comment with addresses from the binary.
Having spent a lot of time reversing apps myself, this is a straight copyright violation. Your code is a directly derivative work from Skype.
- caf 15y agoI wonder if that's a small enough component to count as de minimus copying.
- gtirloni 15y agoIs there the notion of minimum copyright infringement?
- fffggg 15y agoYes and no. There is no such notion in copyright law. Case law is unclear, however: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_minimis#Copyright http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_minimis#Copyright
- caf 15y agoThe jury instructions issued by the judge in the ongoing Oracle vs Google case make considerable reference to the principle: http://www.groklaw.net/pdf3/OraGoogle-1018.pdf http://www.groklaw.net/pdf3/OraGoogle-1018.pdf
- Xuzz 15y agoAt least 3/4 of those 4000 lines is directly copied from Skype, and that's just one file. I don't think that's small enough to not matter; anyway, if it really was so small, it should easily have been rewritten with original code.
- caf 15y agoIt's the size compared to the size of the relevant copyrighted work that matters, not compared to the size of the work it's copied into.
- jahewson 15y agoNo that's a simplistic approach. Both matter, for example one volume of the Encyclopedia Britannica is a very small portion of the overall work, but it cannot be freely copied. Likewise if you write a book a million pages long, copying entire chapters does not suddenly become ok.
- caf 15y agoIt is my understanding that "the relevant copyrighted work" in the Encyclopedia Britannica example is likely to be the article rather than the entire encyclopedia.
- skypeopensource 15y ago"No, that's bullshit." What about you talking? Maybe you need read dictionary definitions of words bull and shit. Pay copyright rent for this words, and stop trolling us.