David Kastrup wrote:
Sure. But it does not mean that the work is necessarily free from the copyright of others.
It is free from the work of others unless it contains pieces of the other work copied into it.
There have been cases where secondary literature, or spinoffs or continuations have been prohibited on the base of copyright laws.
Yes. But these have never been applied to computer code. Just the opposite, in fact - that an expression is the only possible way to represent something is a defense against copyright violation.
Things are not as pretty as you'd like them to be.
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