Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 09:17:51PM +0200, Måns Rullgård wrote: >> Thanks for mentioning command lines. Running a program from the >> command line, usually involves passing it options. These options are >> (obviously) copies of strings from the actual program. Can this >> copying be a copyright violation? IMHO, it is no different, in >> principle, from using function names declared in a header file. > > If you can find us a country whose laws make this illegal, > this issue would be worth discussing. > > If the laws of that country were available in english, we > could probably do justice to that (hypothetical) discussion. > > If there are any such countries, and they make a practice > of enforcing such laws (rather than just having them on the > books to confuse novices), we should probably put together a > page warning people to about using computers in that country > (or those countries).
You are obviously convinced that using a command line interface can't be protected by copyright. Why, then, are you so persistent in insisting that other interfaces somehow are awarded such protection? -- Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]