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Authored by: AntiFUD on Tuesday, May 08 2012 @ 08:57 PM EDT |
Since we are discussing OvG in the US, I suggest that you reconsider your
foregoing proposition, since only source code is accepted by the US Copyright
Office when registering.
If you don't believe me, see http://www.copyright.gov/eco/help-deposit.html
Object code and/or binary and/or octal does not include the copyright
declaration.
Furthermore, each individual program being registered has to have the first 40
pages or 1000 lines and the last 40 pages or 1000 lines of the source code
delivered to the USCO.
So the whole of Timsort 924 lines (including the rangecheck 9 lines) would have
to be delivered to the USCO for full statutory damages to become applicable.
However, I have in the back of my mind that the Java rangecheck (written by
Joshua Bloch (while at Sun)) was included in a package named
java.something.arrays and I have no clue how many lines there were in that. But
the same rules apply.
HTH
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