In our previous episode, Hans-Peter Diettrich said:
>
> > This sidestep thread over the EU directive misses the main point. Legal or
> > not, the question is do we really copy interfaces straight from Borland
> > source? Afaik not. At least I never did, I always looked up header
> > definitions
Marco van de Voort schrieb:
This sidestep thread over the EU directive misses the main point. Legal or
not, the question is do we really copy interfaces straight from Borland
source? Afaik not. At least I never did, I always looked up header
definitions from places as Delphi.about.com
How ca
Daniël Mantione schrieb:
If the order of elements is enforced, it is not a creative decision,
thus both programmers can make the same decision without violating each
others copyright.
How can one be sure that the arrangement is not required, somehow? ;-)
An interface is a contract, and as su
- "Marco van de Voort" schreef:
> In our previous episode, Dani?l Mantione said:
> > > and C++ you can get hell when you change the order of elements,
> > > with interleaved #defines and #ifs (what's possible in Pascal as
> > > well).
> >
> > If the order of elements is enforced, it is no
In our previous episode, Dani?l Mantione said:
> > and C++ you can get hell when you change the order of elements,
> > with interleaved #defines and #ifs (what's possible in Pascal as
> > well).
>
> If the order of elements is enforced, it is not a creative decision, thus
> both programmers can
Op Sun, 29 Aug 2010, schreef Hans-Peter Diettrich:
Copyright is about creative decisions. For example the order in
which procedures, variables are declared are creative decisions
and thus part of the expression of an interface. If you make
the same creative decisions as the original program,
Daniël Mantione schrieb:
The EU software directive says a few words about this matter:
"Protection in accordance with this Directive shall apply to the
expression in any form of a computer program. Ideas and principles which
underlie any element of a computer program, including those which
u
Op Sat, 28 Aug 2010, schreef Dimitri Smits:
Hi,
(just hate it when you send something after re-reading it a few times, and a
minute later you know that there is something important you forgot to ask)
Since objectnames and interfaces are cloned from Delphi everywhere in the
fpc-rtl, I was w
Hi,
(just hate it when you send something after re-reading it a few times, and a
minute later you know that there is something important you forgot to ask)
Since objectnames and interfaces are cloned from Delphi everywhere in the
fpc-rtl, I was wondering if this is legitimate use and not a copy
