"Sylvain LE GALL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- Brian Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED]