On Thu, 16 Mar 2006, Joerg Schilling wrote:

> Rich Teer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > Well, IANAL, but it seems to me that one can't GPL magic numbers or
> > algorithms, so provided that you don't use any of the GPLed code, I
> > think you should be OK.
> 
> I am not sure about the US Copyright system. In Europe, an algorithm would
> most likely be too small to be called a "work".

Right.  ISTR reading somewhere a while ago that ideas aren't copyrightable
or patentable, but the expression of those ideas ARE (at least in some
jurisdictions).

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