> Hans Aberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > the output of a copyrighted program is rarely viewed as being > > covered by the copyright of the program that made it. > > No, actually it's quite common. For example, if I run the traditional > /usr/ccs/bin/yacc that is shipped with Solaris 9, the output file > y.tab.c contains the following lines: > > /* > * Copyright (c) 1993 by Sun Microsystems, Inc. > */ > > There is no other wording granting permission to copy, so under the > Berne convention you have no right to copy the output file y.tab.c > unless you have some other agreement with Sun.
Actually, I believe that the Berne convention gives no standing whatever to written copyright notices of this sort. Instead, if I produce a copyrightable work, that work is protected by copyright unless I take steps to make it otherwise. Here the issue is works that are produced by the operation of copyrighted software. I don't know what the default status is of works produced by X's use of Y's copyrighted programs, but I rather suspect that such products belong to X unless the license granted to X by Y explicitly makes other provisions. Paul Hilfinger _______________________________________________ Help-bison@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-bison
