Hyman Rosen <[email protected]> wrote: > Alan Mackenzie wrote: >> Note that the copyright of executable files is invariably held to be held >> by those who have copyright of the source files, not those who wrote the >> compiler.
> An interesting aside is that the source and executable forms of a > computer program do not have separate copyrights. They are considered > to be the same work for copyright purposes. That sounds, .... er complicated! You mean, if you validly hold an executable copy of a (non-free) program, and you "somehow" get hold of the source for it, then you're entitled to keep that source code. Are you sure, on this one? I mean, this doesn't apply to book translation. If a publisher is authorised to publish an edition of a book written in English, that wouldn't give him any rights to publish somebody else's German translation. Sorry, I can't work this out! -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
