From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic.brenta@insalien.org>
Subject: Re: Artistically creative expression has no role in software design
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 11:38:40 +0200
Date: 2004-07-21T11:37:46+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87acxtsnrz.fsf@insalien.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: OJmdnaIL37T_XGDdRVn-vg@comcast.com
"Robert I. Eachus" writes:
> Think about it this way: What if you design a program in Ada, and I
> make a "work alike" program written in say PL/I. Did I violate your
> copyright? I think I would agree that if I "reverse engineered"
> your code--or just read the comments--and used the same design I was
> infringing. Even if my version used char(*) varying where you used
> Unbounded_String, and so on.
IANAL, but this looks to me that you would be translating the Ada
program into another language. This does not sound any different tran
translating a book from English into French, for instance. I would
suppose that copyright law has provisions for this?
--
Ludovic Brenta.
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2004-07-19 18:46 Artistically creative expression has no role in software design Marc A. Criley
2004-07-19 18:56 ` Ed Falis
2004-07-19 19:03 ` Hyman Rosen
2004-07-19 23:24 ` Marc A. Criley
2004-07-20 0:27 ` Nick Roberts
2004-07-20 7:40 ` Hyman Rosen
2004-07-20 15:24 ` Nick Roberts
2004-07-20 16:00 ` Marc A. Criley
2004-07-20 18:46 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-07-20 22:41 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-08-09 16:14 ` Richard Riehle
2004-07-19 20:49 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-07-19 23:27 ` Marc A. Criley
2004-07-20 9:05 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-07-20 0:31 ` Nick Roberts
2004-07-20 1:45 ` Alexander E. Kopilovich
2004-07-20 8:20 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-07-20 14:28 ` Martin Krischik
2004-07-20 15:02 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-07-20 18:02 ` Wes Groleau
2004-07-21 9:30 ` Martin Krischik
2004-07-21 20:22 ` Simon Wright
2004-07-23 8:00 ` Rolf Ebert
2004-07-23 21:04 ` Simon Wright
2004-07-21 20:17 ` Simon Wright
2004-07-21 22:15 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-07-23 20:59 ` Simon Wright
2004-07-21 1:05 ` Robert I. Eachus
2004-07-21 1:17 ` Ed Falis
2004-07-21 3:44 ` tmoran
2004-07-21 4:09 ` tmoran
2004-07-21 9:38 ` Ludovic Brenta [this message]
2004-07-22 14:11 ` Marc A. Criley
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