Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Previously Henning Makholm wrote: > > That's knowledge. Facts are not copyrightable, only particular > > expressions of facts are. > > Such as a particular way to express the format for the intermediate languag= > e?
No, file formats are not copyrightable, only actual files. Otherwise clones of proprietary packages with proprietary file formats would be in violation of copyright. -- "Unix... is not so much a product as it is a painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture." --Neal Stephenson
