Someone wrote in [personal profile] mjg59 2014-05-12 01:15 am (UTC)

Re: Eh... It's a timer

I think we should all feel a bit humbled in our arm chair lawyering today. Why would an API receive copyright protection?

So who is to say that wrapping a hardware timer isn't a creative act? Or consider the work of art that is ktime untion (returned by both the original and dtrace's version of the function):
http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/include/linux/ktime.h#L46

Put that in a frame and sell it at an art gallery I say, I felt inspired by the seconds going before nanoseconds for big endian platforms. Truly a metaphor for life itself.

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