From ... From: Erik Naggum Subject: Re: Copyrighted header files (was: reading/writing...) Date: 2000/01/28 Message-ID: <3158075016590411@naggum.no>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 578887587 References: <3157825117110563@naggum.no> <47lgxnrhf.fsf@beta.franz.com> <3157890087157420@naggum.no> <3158009696783450@naggum.no> <389185F3.EF07E10D@iname.com> mail-copies-to: never Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@eunet.no X-Trace: oslo-nntp.eunet.no 949089591 29261 195.0.192.66 (28 Jan 2000 19:59:51 GMT) Organization: Naggum Software; +47 8800 8879 or +1 510 435 8604; fax: +47 2210 9077; http://www.naggum.no User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.5 Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 28 Jan 2000 19:59:51 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp * "Fernando D. Mato Mira" | Itchy question: What happens when the specification is (partly) expressed | in a copyrighted C header file? Even if you type yourself every byte, | it'll be essentially the same thing. invoke "fair use" and claim that you cannot copyright numerical constants. copyright does not cover reproducing functional equivalence, so you could argue that you're not reproducing more than you have to in order to use the specification for its intended purpose (which by law is prevented from being "to screw the readers" :). #:Erik