On Jul 19, 2005, at 7:37 AM, Walter Raboch wrote:
as far as I unterstood Michael, the tool can't tranlate anything. He has to modify the method signatures to match get/setter paradigma of .net and use System.IO.Stream. Is this still automagically than or is it already authoring? where is the point of crossing the frontier?
There is no fixed point in copyright law. Basically, it is when the derived work has sufficient original content that it is generally recognizable as an original work of its own, at which point the new work has two copyrights (the original owner and the derivative owner). Some translations, particularly into human languages, require some original interpretation. Computer languages do not -- they can all be automated and thus are usually considered the same as the original and not sufficient to be derivative. Anyway, just submit a contributors agreement to the ASF and nobody will care who actually owns the copyright. ....Roy
