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On Wed, 23 Sep 2020, madscientistatlarge wrote:
> If you freely provide information on an open email list you have just wai=
ved
> any POTENTIAL copyright claims. A lawyer would be happy to confirm this.
> Your' inability to find something on the web or in a library hardly prove=
s
> that it is "original" in any way. There are plenty of things I've found a=
t
> a college library that are totally lacking from the web. Further, not
> finding it at X number of libraries hardly proves it's not out there!

You seem to be confusing patents with copyrights. Disclosure can hinder
getting a patent (e.g., on an algorithm), but Sergio is perfectly within
his rights to assert his copyright on his specific implementation of the
algorithm(s) -- i.e., the source code.

-- Dave Tweed
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