On Friday 19. January 2007. 00:56, avox wrote: > jon-73 wrote: > > I am not a coder nor am I a lawyer, but what if someone put his > > invention of editing methods (the script/extension, bound to scribus) > > under a restrictive license AND the scribus team decides (by chance) > > that this function would be useful to be implemented into scribus? > > Will this be a problem of copyright infringement? Do they HAVE to pay > > for the idea? > > It will only be a copyright infringement if the Scribus team copies his > code instead of writing their own code. > You have to separate "copyright" from "patents". With patents you can > protect ideas, but AFAIK that doesn't work with software in Europe. > Copyright doesn't protect ideas but the written form. Rewriting the same > ideas with your own words is legal, and even citing if it's limited to > small parts and falls under fair use. That's why I don't think all scripts > for Scribus fall under the Scribus copyright.
AFAIK, patent-free is only valid for fundamental ideas...
