Suspected X Server Copyright Infrigement

[Paul Tagliamonte]

On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 11:58:29AM +0200, Mateusz Jończyk wrote:
> Hello,
> Could You review the code in
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/tree/hw/xfree86/modes/xf86cvt.c
> and
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/tree/hw/xwayland/xwayland-cvt.c
> 
> There is a comment that claims that it was based on some XLS spreadsheet. It can be
> found currently at http://www.elo.utfsm.cl/~elo212/docs/CVTd6r1.xls (probably the
> same version).

It looks like a pretty simple formula, is there a part of it which is
subject to copyright law that looks to be problematic?

Have you emailed the author of this xls file? Is he claiming copyright
over a mathmatical function and a few forms in an xls file?

This is creative, sure, but the creative part is the presentation -- the
actual xls script part, not the facts generated, nor the forumla used to
generate it.

I'd email the author to see what he says before going much further.

Cheers,
  Paul

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