Exactly. Nor may he line by line paraphrase the source code from PL/S (assembler?) to C++ or Java or PL/I (Whelan v. Jaslow).
Nor, quite possibly, may he make the screen layout the same as SDSF, or almost the same. Nor, of course, may he rip off those reference manuals; he must create his own, with his own expression. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2012 11:23 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Programming languages can't have copyright protection, EU court rules On Wed, 2 May 2012 22:39:45 -0700, Edward Jaffe wrote: >On 5/2/2012 7:33 PM, Scott Ford wrote: >> So how do you protect code, whatever language you have written in , in business ? > >You must treat it as trade secret information. > Not quite the point. Suppose someone wanted to create a product that performs the same functions as, for example, SDSF. He's free to do so legally, as long as he doesn't base his product on the source code (or disassembled load modules, etc.) of SDSF. He may, however, read the reference manuals of SDSF to learn what function it performs, but the implementation must be original. He may not IEBCOPY unload SDSF; AMASPZAP it to change the panel appearance and sell it as original work. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
