User:Trap D
Hi TrapD, it's not clear if you had permission for the use of the Prolog Y combinator code? --Paddy3118 09:43, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
- I think that that excerpt would qualify for fair use, at least in the U.S.A. (This site is educational, and non-profit, the quoted material is but a small part of the entire work, and the idea that this quote would devalue the book seems absurd). --Rdm 11:32, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
- The site is not non-profit. That'd cost too much to set up and maintain. --Michael Mol 14:01, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
- That is ironic, but I still think we should be ok on the legal front. When I look at the reference page, the amount of overlap with the prolog y-combinator is vanishingly small, and this site is not going to be doing any harm to the publishers of that book. Unless I am missing something big, it would be difficult to support an assertion that the publishers of that book can have any rights to something so small and algorithmic in character. --Rdm 14:52, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
- If I get a C&D, I'll take it down. I'd prefer a clean-room solution, of course. --Michael Mol 14:55, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
- That is ironic, but I still think we should be ok on the legal front. When I look at the reference page, the amount of overlap with the prolog y-combinator is vanishingly small, and this site is not going to be doing any harm to the publishers of that book. Unless I am missing something big, it would be difficult to support an assertion that the publishers of that book can have any rights to something so small and algorithmic in character. --Rdm 14:52, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
- The site is not non-profit. That'd cost too much to set up and maintain. --Michael Mol 14:01, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
How about we remove the code until we have permission. That way we are covered, and I like that much better than keeping it until someone gets a take-down notice! --Paddy3118 15:54, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
- Permission for what, exactly? Seriously, when I look at that prolog code, and I look at the reference (which itself was a compare and contrast page), I am having a hard time seeing what this takedown is about. --Rdm 16:49, 11 April 2011 (UTC)