Why is it--if it is--that if I write rules and you translate them into software you own the software and are not violating my copyright ownership of the (expression of the) rules, whereas if you translate them into French you don't own the rights to the French version?
-- Russ Abbott _____________________________________________ Professor, Computer Science California State University, Los Angeles Cell phone: 310-621-3805 o Check out my blog at http://russabbott.blogspot.com/ On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Patrick Reilly <[email protected] > wrote: > I will add that a Creative Commons license approach might be of interest to > this community. > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Oct 3, 2009, at 20:23, Gary Schiltz <[email protected]> wrote: > > Of course, all these arguments are moot with open source licenses. But >> then, I wonder how many people actually make money with open source. I'm on >> the fence with regards to the whole open source movement. Opinions? >> >> ;; Gary >> >> >> On Oct 3, 2009, at 10:24 PM, russell standish wrote: >> >> On Sat, Oct 03, 2009 at 07:07:00PM -0700, Miles Parker wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> IANAL of course, but in general this situation is no different form one >>>> where ay someone has an idea, tells it to someone else, and that someone >>>> else writes a book about it. Ideas can't be copyrighted but software >>>> can; >>>> and implementations of ideas can be patented. (Yuck, though..) Am I >>>> right >>>> >>> >>> No - only the ideas can be patented. The whole software patent brouha >>> revolves around people patenting fairly obvious software algorithms >>> for marginally novel uses. But it is not the software itself that is >>> patented - if I write a piece of software that implements someone >>> patented algorithm, then I am potentially infringing that patent, >>> regardless of whether I even know the patent existed. >>> >>> folks? By default the copyright is with the actual author, i.e. in this >>>> case the programer, unless there is some specific agreement otherwise. >>>> But >>>> that's just the default situation; if that's not what you want then you >>>> guys need to come up with an agreement that specifies that you share >>>> copyright and then make sure that the code has the appropriate notices. >>>> That should be really straightforward. >>>> >>>> >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >> >> > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >
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