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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA519 ; Thu, 04 Feb 93 13:00:23 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!darwin.sura.net!cs.utk.edu!cs.utk.edu!moore From: moore@cs.utk.edu (Keith Moore) Newsgroups: alt.suit.att-bsdi,comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: George William Herbert's Challenge - Part 2 (opening arguments) Date: 3 Feb 1993 02:01:23 GMT Organization: Univ. of Tenn. Computer Science, Knoxville Lines: 28 Distribution: world Message-ID: <1kn91jINNn26@CS.UTK.EDU> References: <106742@netnews.upenn.edu> <1993Jan27.215738.12384@igor.tamri.com> <1kbtpf$e9h@agate.berkeley.edu> <1993Feb3.002534.5637@igor.tamri.com> Reply-To: moore@cs.utk.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: wilma.cs.utk.edu I must have misunderstood you. You quoted _Numerical recipies in C_ as follows: > "Copyright does not protect ideas, but only the expression of those > ideas in a particular form. In the case of a computer program, the > ideas consist of the programs's methodology and algorithm, including > the sequence of processes adopted by the programmer. The expression > ideas is the program source code and it's derived object code. ....and then later stated... > Sentence two accurately represents "ownership" under current case law, > "methodology, algorithms, and sequence of processes". To translate the > methodology, algorithms, and sequence of processes into any other form > does not change the ownership. This means between puesdo code, english, > C, or any other languague - human or machine readable. ....but as I understand the first quotation, it appears to state that copyright law *does not apply* to the ideas (consisting of "methodology, algorithms, and sequence of processes" as described in the first quotation) but only to the *expression* of those ideas (e.g. the actual source code). What am I missing? -- Keith Moore / U.Tenn CS Dept / 107 Ayres Hall / Knoxville TN 37996-1301 Internet: moore@cs.utk.edu BITNET: moore@utkvx