On Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 11:43:12AM -0500, Ben Pfaff wrote: > 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.
I think you'll find this varies from country to country. There was a case in Australia a while ago about copyright applying to an invented spreadsheet language, that held up I believe. I /believe/ the laws have been changed since, though. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. PGP encrypted mail preferred. ``The thing is: trying to be too generic is EVIL. It's stupid, it results in slower code, and it results in more bugs.'' -- Linus Torvalds
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