See Chapter 2 of the Fairy Use Tail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJn_jC4FNDo
Copyright applies to a fixed creative work, not ideas or concepts. The GPL is a subset of the copyright law, thus is can never apply to ideas.
And this is right. We don't want ideas to have monopolies, ever. Patents actually apply to an innovative process or invention which is not an idea, no matter how daft the software patents being granted are. Fixing patent law is basically about fixing the freedom of ideas (and maths).
Martin,
On Fri, 2013-03-22 at 19:13 -0400, Bric wrote:
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?) :-))
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