On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:02:03 -0400, Chante <udontspa...@never.will.u>
wrote:
"Steven Schveighoffer" <schvei...@yahoo.com> wrote
compiled software
(you meant, "source code")
OK, let's try this again.
Source code is copyrightable. Compiled code *IS ALSO* copyrighted due to
it being a direct translation of the source code that is copyrighted. Any
way you take source code and make some other form of media-based data out
of it is copyrighted. We can keep going around in this circle if you wish.
This might help:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_copyright
is copyrighted, it's a derivative translation of the original source
code. When speaking of copyrighted software, the binary code and the
source used to build it are one and the same.
OK, but what if the "source code" is only graphical on the computer
display, and the internal binary representation (not text) is then
compiled? Obviously, the design of the software are the graphical
diagrams on the computer screen for they are what the programmer
understands.
Images are copyrightable as is all media-based data.
-Steve
