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From: tenney@well.UUCP (Glenn S. Tenney)
Newsgroups: net.legal
Subject: Re:  Copyrights & Translated programs
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Date: Sat, 22-Mar-86 02:40:16 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar 22 02:40:16 1986
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There was some article a while ago that discussed the question of
whether a conversion from one computer language to another really is
a translation in the Copyright Law sense.  If you believe that it is
(and this is not clear), then the compilation from source code to 
object code would be a translation.  Please think about it, it is
not obvious that a binary object file of a C program is a translation
of the expression of an idea.  In one sense I think it is, but there
really is nothing at all obviously similar between the two.  Are there
any cases to decide this issue?
 
-- Glenn Tenney 
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