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Code isn't the same so should be ok.
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::: 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. --[[User:Rdm|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. --[[User:Short Circuit|Michael Mol]] 14:55, 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! --[[User:Paddy3118|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. --[[User:Rdm|Rdm]] 16:49, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
Hi guys. Trap D - I read your note on my talk page, and I have no objections in you posting the code if you think your code is sufficiently different. I just:
# Noted you made reference to the book and thought the code was ''from'' the the book rather than based on it.
# Looked at the license on one of their code pages and noted that their license didn't look compatable to RC.
# I did search for 'combinator' on the books page - which was used in your code, and did not find it. I then ignored that as I thought maybe a variable name had been changed.
If you have trouble copying your code from the older version [http://rosettacode.org/mw/index.php?title=Y_combinator&oldid=104614#Prolog here] then I could do it for you? --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] 19:54, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
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