Re: Debian Food Planet

["Lennart Sorensen" <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>]

On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 10:59:37PM +0100, Manuel Görlich wrote:
> 
> Am 09.11.2012 um 22:19 schrieb Lupe Christoph <lupe@lupe-christoph.de>:
> 
> > On Friday, 2012-11-09 at 15:58:29 +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> > 
> > AFAIK you can't copyright a recipe because it's "just instructions".
> 
> So, you can't copyright a recipe because it is 'just' a set of instructions, but you can copyright program code because…???? dafuq? 

I think the idea is that you can tell someone what the instructions are
in a recipe and that's fine.  Making a photocopy of the book it is in
on the other hand would violate copyright.

So making a program that does the same thing as another program is fine,
but you can't just copy the code.  Same instructions, different
implementation.

-- 
Len Sorensen