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Re: IDL performance and FFTs (was: call external speed) [message #12975 is a reply to message #12887]

Sat, 19 September 1998 00:00

krieger
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Registered: June 1997

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In article <m2d88u8o9s.fsf@mailhost.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>, David Kastrup <dak@mailhost.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> wrote:
> Karl Krieger <kak@ipp.mpg.de> writes:
>
>> BTW: I very much doubt if it's against the GPL to distribute code,
>> which refers to subroutine libraries under GPL as long as I do not
>> include these routines or a compiled binary.
>
> If the interface is unique to the GPL software, you are creating a
> derived work, as it is of no use without the GPL binary and is
> intended to link with it. The interface itself, however, is usually
> not considered copyrightable. So if you distribute a lousy
> implementation of fftw with the same interface along with your wrapper
> routines, one would have problems suing you in court.

Well, I hope the authors of FFTW or MIT as copyright owner won't sue
me for distributing some lousy wrapper routines for their excellent
library ;-) The only persons requesting that stuff so far were from
other research institutes without any commercial interests.

Karl

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