On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 08:45:51PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Doug writes: > > The difficulty is, having seen the code, how do I accomplish the same > > thing without using hints inherent in your code. Its like trying to > > write a literature-research paper; having read a hundred articles, I have > > to ensure that everything I say in my paper is either my own idea or is > > properly referenced. > > Copyright law does not require that. > > > Therefore, I don't even want to read code that I'm not free to take ideas > > from. > > You _are_ free to take ideas from copyrighted code. Copyright protects > expression, not ideas. >
Legal or not, you can still get into hot water. Just look at the Davinchi Code court case where the authors of a scholary paper tried to sue the authors of the book based on the use if _ideas_ in their paper. It got thrown out and the publicity helped the book, but it was still hot water. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
