This is not the code. This is the language specification. Someone could write their own version of your product. Then users could buy their application instead of yours and run their programs.
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 9:33 PM, Scott Ford <[email protected]> wrote: > All, > > So how do you protect code, whatever language you have written in , in > business ? > Without copyright, doesn't it imply , people can take you source and change > it and resell it ...if the gave your source , right ? > > > Scott Ford > Senior Systems Engineer > www.identityforge.com > > > > On May 2, 2012, at 1:49 PM, Charles Mills <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> Can one replicate the 'look and feel' without copyright issues in the EU >> now? >> >> I might add that "look and feel" might be subject to copyright protection. >> Copyright, again, protects *expression.* >> >> If I wrote a z/OS system monitor that cleverly displayed the status of >> started tasks as bouncing balls of various sizes and colors, that expression >> might be subject to copyright, but the function of displaying the status of >> started tasks graphically would not. >> >> Charles -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
