On Sunday 12 November 2006 17:50, Kai Ponte wrote:

> In any case, I have always strongly felt that software can be copyrighted.
>  
"Strongly felt" is a strange way of putting it.  ;-)

I'm not sure this is an area of feelings, its, rather, a matter of law.

Software source code can and always has been copyright-able.
> cat   /usr/src/linux/kerne/cpu.c
/* CPU control.
 * (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 Rusty Russell
 *
 * This code is licenced under the GPL.

That little (C) is the copyright symbol (or what passes for one in the
absence of availability of the real one: ©

Every module of the Linux Kernel has a copyright asserted.


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