Rjack wrote:
They are *not* considered to be the same work for copyright purposes. One form is considered to be a "translation" of the other. That makes one a *derivative* work of the other under US law:
You are wrong. <http://ipmall.info/hosted_resources/CopyrightCompendium/chapter_0300.asp> 321.03 Relationship between source code and object code. The Copyright Office considers source code and object code as two representations of the same computer program. For registration purposes, the claim is in the computer program rather than in any particular representation of the program. ... 323 Derivative computer programs. A derivative computer program is one that is based on or incorporates material from a previously published or registered or public domain program that has been revised, augmented, abridged, or otherwise modified so that the modifications, as a whole, represent an original work of authorship. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
