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From: | Hyman Rosen |
Subject: | Re: The GPL and Patents: ROFL |
Date: | Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:59:56 -0000 |
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On 8/18/2010 1:29 PM, RJack wrote:
(b) In no case does copyright protection for an original work of authorship extend to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery, regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated, or embodied in such work." Which part of "... regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated, or embodied in such work" don't you understand Hyman?
Can't you even read your own citations? Good lord! Here, maybe if I take out the hard words you'll understand what you posted: In no case does copyright protection ... extend to any idea See? Copyright doesn't protect the idea in the program, but it protects the text of the program. The only time it does not is if the text is inextricably bound to the idea. That was not the case in Atari v. Nintendo, and indeed is almost never the case. I guess the anti-GPL cranks feel it necessary to take their game up a notch, from failing to understand law to failing to understand English.
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