Please don't top-post.
"Ryan R. Matt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Patents are totally separate from Copyrights. [...]
Yes.
> Copyrights don't have the same requirements and therefore you can
> copyright a software algorithm.
No. Copyright applies only to a *specific, copyable expression* of
On Wednesday 03 October 2007 04:38:10 am Ryan R. Matt wrote:
> Patents are totally separate from Copyrights. For a patent, you
> need to show that the item being patented is new, useful, and
> non-obvious. You also would have a patent registration number on
> file with a nation's patent office.
Hi,
I'm considering packaging ht2html [1] for Debian, mainly because the
Jython package I'm working on uses it to build its documentation.
The ht2html tarball doesn't include any license text file and no
copyright notice is found in source files.
But according to the SourceForge project pa
Patents are totally separate from Copyrights. For a patent, you need to show
that the item being patented is new, useful, and non-obvious. You also would
have a patent registration number on file with a nation's patent office.
Copyrights don't have the same requirements and therefore you can
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 09:16:55AM +0100, Måns Rullgård wrote:
> Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >> Is it a kind of "algorithm copyright"?
> >
> > No.
>
> In some countries there is. They call it a patent.
A patent is not a copyright.
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Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho, Jyväskyl
Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Is it a kind of "algorithm copyright"?
>
> No.
In some countries there is. They call it a patent.
> IANAL etc
Neither am I.
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Måns Rullgård
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