Hi all!
Rob Myers wrote: [...] > > Out of curiosity could function/method names be trademarked to regulate > their calling? :-) In europe not. APIs and even data base schemata (what you get after executing a sequence of SQL create table statements) are explicitly noted as: not copyright able, not patent able, not trademark able. So a program written relying on an API never touches even any IP right associated with the original work yielding that API (well linking or includign the original work (in-)to the distribution brings us back to the topic). > > - Rob. > Angelo ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Angelo Schneider OOAD/UML [EMAIL PROTECTED] Putlitzstr. 24 Patterns/FrameWorks Fon: +49 721 9812465 76137 Karlsruhe C++/JAVA Fax: +49 721 9812467 -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3
