Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 08 2012 @ 04:52 PM EDT |
According to all the copyright treaties that mention it, compiled code is
protected in exactly the same way as the source code for that program is. They
are considered the same work. All national laws (that would be most of them,
the US included) which conform to these treaties treat source and compiled code
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Authored by: jlueters on Tuesday, May 08 2012 @ 06:39 PM EDT |
The compiled code of a source (textual) Program is considerd a different
incarnation of
that textual source code. That is not the question.
But if you start eclipse, connect it to a database and let it generate a
complete,
runnable, application that so created source code is not protected under
copyright law,
because it is not an idividual, personal creation. That is what i call machine
generated
code.
The only practical problem is to prove that the code in question has been
generated
(created) by a machine.
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Authored by: Wol on Wednesday, May 09 2012 @ 09:31 AM EDT |
As far as Berne is concerned, software has always been copyrighted. After all,
it fits the definition of a "literary work". Just like a mathematical
proof. It is *an* *expression* of a fundamental truth. Just like a romantic
novel :-)
The US is an oddity. While they did not have a successful creative industry they
were only too happy not to have a properly functional copyright system.
Problem is, it's still not properly functional, hence the current attempt by
Oracle to claim copyright protection on the fundamental truth.
Cheers,
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