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From: markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark William Hopkins)
Newsgroups: comp.compression
Subject: Re: Question about patents and copyrights on algorithms...
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Date: 19 Apr 91 03:22:18 GMT
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In article <1991Apr14.150509.1755@watserv1.waterloo.edu> dewinter@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca (Jack a.k.a. Wildside) writes:
>If a algorithm is patented or copyrighted, how much of the algorithm are
>programmers able to use? ...

Algorithms can't be copyrighted.  Software implementations of them can, but not
the algorithms themselves.