John Stoneham ha scritto:
apparent that he came to his conclusions as to the copyright issue at
the beginning of last year while still at CodeGear. I think it's
interesting that he never raised those issues then. It is also clear
that he has no clue about copyright law. It seems he believes that if
a unit does the same thing in the same way as another copyrighted
unit, there is a copyright violation somewhere involved. You can't
copyright an algorithm (and there's still an ongoing debate about
whether it's actually proper to patent one, although the USPTO does it
all the time now). But it doesn't help when someone is blowing smoke
into an already cloudy issue.
I am pleased to read your competent opinion about this matter that I
consider very interesting and relevant (both the opinion and the matter).
Could you please tell me if there is a real chance that CodeGear asks
money for a concrete copyright violation to someone of the FPC or
Lazarus developers?
And in this case, how this claim could be performed?
thanks
tiziano
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