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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!news.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!news.dacom.co.kr!usenet.seri.re.kr!news.cais.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!nwnews.wa.com!news1.halcyon.com!coho!tzs From: tzs@coho.halcyon.com (Tim Smith) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX) Date: 9 May 1996 05:28:02 GMT Organization: Northwest Nexus, Inc. - Professional Internet Services Lines: 12 Message-ID: <4mrvp2$gkd@news1.halcyon.com> References: <NELSON.96Apr15010553@ns.crynwr.com> <318978E8.14B8@vfr.interceptor.com> <4mmhcj$dfr@news1.halcyon.com> <31901BFD.7BAC@vfr.interceptor.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coho.halcyon.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:23427 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:940 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3712 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3543 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:19024 comp.os.linux.advocacy:48672 Thumper! <thumper@vfr.interceptor.com> wrote: >Consider this: a screenwirter writes a movie. Someone else takes his script, >reads the scripts, makes changes, and produces the movie. Is the screenwriter >entitled to anything? Sure, but that would be copyright infringement. A movie example that would be more like reverse engineering would be for someone to analyze "Casasblanca" in order to determine *why* the movie works, and then to make their own movie that works for the same reasons. The story, dialog, plot, etc., would all be new, and there would be no copyright problem. --Tim Smith