Re: Potential copyright problem in EIEIO improvement

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 03:49:00 +0100
> From: Jan Moringen <address@hidden>
> 
> Basically, I implemented an algorithm (c3 linearization) which is
> described in an academic paper (see below). My implementation is very
> close to the implementation presented in the paper (although that one is
> written in Dylan).
> [...]
> Any thoughts on this issue would be greatly appreciated. I can try to
> provide additional information if required.

To my non-lawyer's eyes, the two implementations are so different in
form that they only share the same idea.  And ideas are not
copyrightable, AFAIK.

But IANAL.