From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a7365ff3531de5f4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: controlnews3.google.com!news2.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!tar-meneldur.cbb-automation.DE!not-for-mail From: Dmitry A. Kazakov Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: [OT] Right to use vs. sue (was: No call for Ada...) Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 15:00:53 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: tar-meneldur.cbb-automation.de (212.79.194.119) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1083329203 16999105 I 212.79.194.119 ([77047]) X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 Xref: controlnews3.google.com comp.lang.ada:124 Date: 2004-04-30T15:00:53+02:00 List-Id: On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 15:45:30 +0100, Marius Amado Alves wrote: >> > Why can't this [copyright] work for software? >> >> Because, now software development is maturing. Most of software >> written requires no creativity at all, but rather engineering. What is >> so interesting in MS-Word to deserve copyright protection? > >The source code? May not be "interesting" but is a the result of a lot of >work. Can you copyright a ditch? It is also a lot of work with a shovel. May I have a look at? -- Regards, Dmitry Kazakov www.dmitry-kazakov.de