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Subject: Re: Artistically creative expression has no role in software design
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From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic.brenta@insalien.org>
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 11:38:40 +0200
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"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.