Daniël Mantione schrieb:
If the order of elements is enforced, it is not a creative decision,
thus both programmers can make the same decision without violating each
others copyright.
How can one be sure that the arrangement is not required, somehow? ;-)
An interface is a contract, and as such every translation *must*
follow the original closely.
Be happy an interface by itself is not copyrightable. If you read about
the history about the software directive there was a big fight about
this, because some companies like IBM wanted copyright to protect them
against clones from the far east, while others actually wanted
interoperating competing products.
Competing products seem to have won, else FPC and Lazarus were illegal.
But even though they are not copyrightable, you cannot verbatimly copy
interface files. There is copyright on the expression of them.
ACK.
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:31991L0250:EN:HTML
Thanks :-)
I didn't know that the Directive is so old, and has become part of the
German law almost literally.
DoDi
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