Richmond Mathewson wrote:
This needs a much more detailed explanation as what is and what is not free/copyright/otherwise.
It isn't that hard to understand. You can copyright your implementation of something but you can't copyright an idea.
The idea of an xtalk language is not copyrightable. Apple's implementation of it in HyperTalk is. Runtime's implementation of in Transcript is. Scott Raney did not consult Apple when building MetaTalk; he wrote all the code from scratch using the ideas that Apple formulated in HyperCard. That is perfectly legal, and now Scott's implementation is copyrighted (and currently owned by Runtime.)
If you write a story, the story is copyrighted. The idea the story tells is not. I can write the same story in my own words, and my copy is copyrighted too.
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