On Tuesday 12 August 2003 23:38, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Than another guy, took my library, transform it to another > > language, released it as GPL also, but deleted my > > copyright notice. > IANAL.Having said that, copyright law, which is the basis of your power > to limit distribution (force people to comply with your license) as an > author of the work (your library in this case), only covers > *experssion*, not ideas. IANAL too, but I think this might be considered in the same manner of a book that is translated to another language - but the copyright still holds. If hes version does everything (or most everything) the same as yours, but simply in a different language - then IMO this is copyright infringement. OTOH, it's ok to take ideas - if hes implementation is considerably different in details that are **not as a result of the other guys choice in languages** then he's in the clear but still a bastard. -- Oded ::.. He keeps differentiating, flying off on a tangent. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
