Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!mandrill!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: Copyright status of Ctex and Common-Tex: whose copyright ??? Message-ID: <4795@ncoast.UUCP> Date: Sat, 3-Oct-87 14:58:09 EDT Article-I.D.: ncoast.4795 Posted: Sat Oct 3 14:58:09 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 4-Oct-87 07:26:38 EDT References: <167@yetti.UUCP> <4760@ncoast.UUCP> <2628@peora.ccur.com> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Followup-To: comp.sources.d Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 27 As quoted from <2628@peora.ccur.com> by randy@peora.UUCP: +--------------- | In article <4760@ncoast.UUCP>, allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) writes: | - As quoted from <167@yetti.UUCP> by oz@yetti.UUCP (Ozan Yigit): | -| He indicates that the translation of, say a copyrighted | -| COBOL program to BASIC would be the infringement of the copyright owner's | -| exclusive right to make derivative works. | - | - As I read this, this means that I cannot get a copy of TeX from the U. of | - Washington (presumably the original Pascal version straight from Don Knuth) | - and run it through p2c, even for my own use. | | Does this mean a compiler violates copyright every time it generates | an intermediate (or assembly) language? Does it matter is the intermediate | is stored on disk? I think that using p2c could be viewed just as another | "compiling" step. Now, if you started modifying your C source you'd | probably be creating a derivative work. +--------------- You chopped my comment about porting. If I fix a BSD-ism (if I find one), I have violated copyright. Remember, some of us use and LIKE System V. -- Brandon S. Allbery, moderator of comp.sources.misc {{harvard,mit-eddie}!necntc,well!hoptoad,sun!mandrill!hal}!ncoast!allbery ARPA: necntc!ncoast!allbery@harvard.harvard.edu Fido: 157/502 MCI: BALLBERY <> "...he calls _that_ a `little adventure'?!" - Cmdr. Ryker