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Explain to me then why Gruber was okay with Github-flavoured Markdown?
by chewxy 12y ago
Explain to me then why Gruber was okay with Github-flavoured Markdown?
- davidcelis 12y agohttps://twitter.com/gruber/status/507661953498890241 https://twitter.com/gruber/status/507661953498890241
- mythz 12y agoGruber said in the talk show that it was a flavour of Markdown that had extensions specifically suited for Developers which had elements that wouldn't make sense to have everywhere.
- ulisesrmzroche 12y agoDunno but it doesn't even matter. You can enforce your copyright whenever you want, that's the rules of the USA. You don't have to enforce it all the time if you don't want to.
- dragonwriter 12y agoNames aren't protected by copyright, and its far from clear that a spec of this type is a non-fair-use derivative work such that it would require a license from the copyright holder of markdown.pl in the first place.
- kevin_thibedeau 12y agoThe license only applies to derivatives of the markdown.pl code. The spec describes a "reverse engineered" implementation that is partially interoperable with the original but isn't actually derived from it. Reverse engineering for the purpose of interoperability is a legal activity in the US.