-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 MJ Ray wrote: > Sean Kellogg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wednesday 19 March 2008 03:10:07 pm Francesco Poli wrote: >>> I don't think that copyright laws give you the right to control >>> distribution of "Scripts", that is to say, works written in >>> your programming language. >> [...] There's even the question of how someone goes about >> learning the language... presumably by example (that's how I've >> learned most other languages). Can I create a work that is not >> derivative of those examples and thus under the preview of >> copyright law? >> >> This would have made a fun topic to write about in law school :) > > Sure. I suspect there's quite a bit of case law about it, > including some generated by the loglan/lojban disputes, where 'JCB > claimed copyright to the language (any use of Loglan had to be > approved by him)' Source: http://arj.nvg.org/lojban/why-i-like.html > > > I'm suspicious of any language where the definer is the first > implementer and hasn't renounced all claim to works in that > language. They look like lawyerbombs to me because I don't know > any better. Is that a good thing to have when trying to promote > your new language? > > Regards, The idea I tried to follow is exactly that to free the language definition from any possible current and future claim (i.e. through non-patentability).
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