On March 22, 2013 at 7:07 PM Felipe Sanches <juca@...2270...> wrote:
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 7:57 PM, Bric <bric@...2538...> wrote:
The MP3 format is copyrighted for its algorithm, and not for the particular expression of that algorithm in some particular computer language (i.e., implementation). Using deductive reasoning, and the contrapositive, in particular, (if A then B --> If not B then not A): If it was the particular expression of the algorithm in, say, C code, that was copyrighted, then I'd be free to express that same algorithm in Python. But Im not.
I think you're actually thinking of patent law... the issues with the mp3 algorithm are related to patents, afaict.
Hmm... I suppose, yes. But to apply the GPL one doesn't need a patent. Where does GPL fall, between copyright and patents? This is why I had the hunch that there's a lot of gray, and room for arbitrary legal decisions, persuasions.
anyhow... someone, hurry! sketch out my "superdropper" in C++, with the already named inkscape objects! :-)) (or would it be in a Python extension?) :-))