22 Mar
2013
22 Mar
'13
11:07 p.m.
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.