On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 01:16:44PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Måns Rullgård wrote: > > Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Måns Rullgård wrote: > > >> Nobody has ever tried to extend the copyright of a program to > > >> include output produced when running the program. > > > > > > If no one has tried, it's because it's quite trivial to contruct a > > > case where a program's output is copyrightable and covered by the > > > copyright of the program. > > > > the output is not a work derived from the compiler. > > Finally we've come to the critical point. It doesn't really matter if > you're dealing with a public performance or not. All that matters is > whether or not the output is a work derived from the program. For some > compilers, it might be. For others, possibly not.
As a general point of note, it is *really hard* to implement a correct C compiler where the output isn't derived from the compiler in some respects. Most languages are similar. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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