Re: Python mode failures with xemacs
Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler(a)online.de> writes:
Am 23.08.2011 12:57, schrieb David Kastrup:
> Andreas Röhler<andreas.roehler(a)online.de> writes:
>
>> Am 23.08.2011 10:24, schrieb David Kastrup:
>>
>>> 10 lines can be significant.
>>
>> 1+
>>
>> IMHO already 3 lines can be significant.
>>
>> Well, after some reflection: why not a single line?
>
> Sure, if we are not talking Python... Line breaks are an arbitrary
> division having little to do with significant creative height where
> copyright sets in. The usual rule of thumb is something like "10
> lines", but of course, it is a rule of thumb. There can be a single
> line that counts, and hundreds of lines that don't.
>
>> And finally: it's just a char, inserted at the right or wrong place,
>> who may change the path of universe.
>
> And now you are babbling again.
>
Well, the "rule of thumb" is your term.
As the copyright assignment policy is built upon that "rule of thumb",
what's the conclusion?
>> My bet is: you know that, while most benevolent people seem to ignore
>> it bravely...
>
> My bet is that your grasp of copyright is not sufficient
see above
Better you should make up your mind and ask where the "rule of thumb"
--10 lines-- is founded.
It is a measure that you can expect to trace and rewrite with a modest
amount of work.
Why not eleven lines, why not nine?
Because it is a rule of thumb.
Don't think it's per chance the 10 has been grasp, but
it's not
rationally either.
That's lawyers woodoo, designed to fool people.
It does not take a special design to get you confused. Laws and their
consequences and interaction with reality are complex, but that is not
due to malicious intent. In my experience, typical legislative powers
do a better job of avoiding unnecessary complexity in laws than typical
programmers do with avoiding unnecessary complexity in programs, given
the respective goals.
Which is not to say that either may not usually be improved.
But your crusade against trying to make legally tenable and conscious
decisions makes about as much sense as a crusade of a computer
illiterate that proposes to save power by switching computers off and
letting programmers do their work on disconnected keyboards instead.
There are only few problems that cease to exist if you choose not to see
them.
--
David Kastrup
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