On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 3:25 AM, Mark Schonewille <m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com> wrote:
> I would think that it is clear to users that sharing code (rather than > stacks) in the code section of RevOnline, implies that people can use it to > learn from. Copying and using it would violate copyright, I think the downloader using it is implied as a permission, too--but not his copying for someone else, paid or not. > but studying the > code and reverse-engineering it would be a form of "fair use" because one > may reasonably presume that people are aware of the learning function of the > code section. Reverse engineering has it's own rules I don't even pretend to understand. It's typically done by two isolated teams; one makes a definition from studying it, while the "clean" team writes new code from scratch (e.g., the Phoenix bios of the 8088 days). > Copyright doesn't protect ideas. That's what patents are for. Nope. There's nothing for ideas. Patents cover implementations and methods. -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode