Ken Arromdee <[email protected]> writes: > On Sat, 7 Feb 2009, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > > 1) The safe way: See what it does, describe someone else not > > knowing the code to write code doing this for you and use that > > code. > > Does that actually work? The description is a derivative work of the > code;
I don't think that's true. A derivative work is one that, in the judge's opinion, re-uses part of the original creative expression. If you express entirely in your own terms (modulo terms that have no other reasonable alternative, such as API names) how the program functions, you have not made a derivative work. > the new code is a derivative work of the description Again, by the same argument, I don't think that's correct. -- \ “I know the guy who writes all those bumper stickers. He hates | `\ New York.” —Steven Wright | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
