Markus Laire writes: > Does anyone know if programming languages are protected by copyright > or not?
Code can be copyrighted; ideas can't be. > When creating a new program, you are not allowed to pick-and-choose > what you want from other programs sources as that would be a copyright > violation. "Sources" is the key word there. You are allowed to take inspiration from what other programs _do_ -- indeed most programs out there seem to be imitations of or rivals to others. > But when creating a new programming language, it seems that everyone > is picking-and-choosing what they want from other programming > languages. Yes, but not from the source of their implementation. (At least, not from the source of any which don't have a licence explicitly permitting doing so.) Smylers
