Re: algorithm copyright? what's that?

2007-10-03 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 02:20:46PM +0200, Nicolas Limare wrote: Terms and conditions for using, copying, distribution and modification of FooBar versions 2.x and 3.x. You acknowledge to be informed about the following facts, and you accept the consequences: [...]

Re: algorithm copyright? what's that?

2007-10-03 Thread Måns Rullgård
Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is it a kind of algorithm copyright? No. In some countries there is. They call it a patent. IANAL etc Neither am I. -- Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: algorithm copyright? what's that?

2007-10-03 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 09:16:55AM +0100, Måns Rullgård wrote: Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is it a kind of algorithm copyright? No. In some countries there is. They call it a patent. A patent is not a copyright. -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho, Jyväskylä, Finland

Re: algorithm copyright? what's that?

2007-10-03 Thread Ryan R. Matt
Patents are totally separate from Copyrights. For a patent, you need to show that the item being patented is new, useful, and non-obvious. You also would have a patent registration number on file with a nation's patent office. Copyrights don't have the same requirements and therefore you can

Unclear license status for prospective package ht2html

2007-10-03 Thread Nicolas Duboc
Hi, I'm considering packaging ht2html [1] for Debian, mainly because the Jython package I'm working on uses it to build its documentation. The ht2html tarball doesn't include any license text file and no copyright notice is found in source files. But according to the SourceForge project

Re: algorithm copyright? what's that?

2007-10-03 Thread Sean Kellogg
On Wednesday 03 October 2007 04:38:10 am Ryan R. Matt wrote: Patents are totally separate from Copyrights. For a patent, you need to show that the item being patented is new, useful, and non-obvious. You also would have a patent registration number on file with a nation's patent office.

Re: algorithm copyright? what's that?

2007-10-03 Thread Ben Finney
Please don't top-post. Ryan R. Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Patents are totally separate from Copyrights. [...] Yes. Copyrights don't have the same requirements and therefore you can copyright a software algorithm. No. Copyright applies only to a *specific, copyable expression* of an