Re: License issue on tiny Javascript fragment
Ben Finney dijo [Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 07:24:22PM +1100]:
> > > 1) The safe way: See what it does, describe someone else not
> > > knowing the code to write code doing this for you and use that
> > > code.
> >
> > Does that actually work? The description is a derivative work of the
> > code;
>
> I don't think that's true. A derivative work is one that, in the
> judge's opinion, re-uses part of the original creative expression. If
> you express entirely in your own terms (modulo terms that have no
> other reasonable alternative, such as API names) how the program
> functions, you have not made a derivative work.
If you confuse patents and copyright, it might be true. However,
copyright deals with the exact, specific implementation
("materalization") of ideas or other creative forms, not the ideas
themselves.
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