Re: More questions about the QPL for a compiler
"Sylvain LE GALL" <sylvain.le-gall@polytechnique.org> writes:
> Well -- using your arguments, let me claim that every french book in
> the world fall under the copyright of "Grammaire Francaise". I am not
> sure whom belongs this licence ( maybe "Bled" should be the good one
> )...
I don't think you understand the nature of copyright. Dictionaries
are not copyrightable; the creativity in selecting particular words is.
> Compilers are made to simplify the task of producing binary code, but
> they only mimics what human should have written for code. Compilers --
> even the actual clever one -- doesn't have the skill to write loop code
> better than human...
But the human who expresses a beautiful and elegant idea of loops
*does* have a copyright on that, even if he writes it into a program
to produce customized loops.
-Brian
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Brian Sniffen bts@alum.mit.edu
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