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Re: SFLC: "a penumbra"


From: Alexander Terekhov
Subject: Re: SFLC: "a penumbra"
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 20:10:23 +0100

[http://www.softwarefreedom.org/publications/msvatt.pdf]

Toward the end, arch legal GNU beagle Eben eloquently states:

"Thus, this Court's precedent repeatedly sets out that software, which 
is nothing more than a set of instructions -- an algorithm -- to be 
performed by a computer in order to solve some mathematical problem, 
is ..."

According to the US Copyright Office, Copyright protection is not 
available for ideas, program logic, algorithms, systems, methods, 
concepts, ...

So... copyright protection is not available for software as defined by 
arch legal GNU beagle Eben.

GPL? Who is GPL?

regards,
alexander.

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