Just a subject change. Unpaid GNUtian volunteers without money*** might want to notice and comment. TIA.
Alexander Terekhov wrote: > > [http://www.softwarefreedom.org/publications/msvatt.pdf] > > Toward the end, arch legal GNU beagle Eben eloquently states: > > "Thus, this Court's precedent repeatedly sets out that software, which > is nothing more than a set of instructions -- an algorithm -- to be > performed by a computer in order to solve some mathematical problem, > is ..." > > According to the US Copyright Office, Copyright protection is not > available for ideas, program logic, algorithms, systems, methods, > concepts, ... > > So... copyright protection is not available for software as defined by > arch legal GNU beagle Eben. > > GPL? Who is GPL? regards, alexander. ***) http://www.ifso.ie/documents/rms-2004-05-24.html (courtesy of GNUtian ciaran: <http://google.com/group/gnu.misc.discuss/msg/0ca99d760cb6903e>) "There are also certain software developers for whom getting a patent licence is extremely hard. We Free Software developers. You see Free Software has been so successful because we have shown we can develop software without any money. Volunteers do it. We don't need to have money to develop powerful large programs. But we certainly need to have money if we're going to buy patent licences." -- "Join the boycott of Chinese products" -- www.stallman.org _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
