Re: cvs: php-benchmarks / deltablue.php

I have also found conflicting statements. ------ "Is conversion automatic? If so yes, your code will be infected. Now if you're writing PHP code inspired by JavaScript code, then no, copyright does not apply, only patents in countries with software patents<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%5Fpatent> ." ------ "Actually, last year our company IP lawyer talked with us about matters like this. She said that copyright for software is rather dumb, or straight-forward, or what you prefer to call it. It only protects the actual text in the source code, just like if it was a book. If no lines of code are equal (should be true for a Perl->Ruby rewrite?), it's not the same work from a copyright view. Ideas expressed by the code, e.g. algorithms, may be protected by patents. But that is another story altogether." 2009/4/8 Ólafur Waage <olafurw@gmail.com> > From the GPL. > > "To “modify” a work means to copy from or adapt all or part of the work in > a fashion requiring copyright permission, other than the making of an exact > copy. The resulting work is called a “modified version” of the earlier work > or a work “based on” the earlier work." > > If this is correct then i'll need to remove that file when I get back home. > (or any of you can if you want) > > > On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> wrote: > >> On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Ólafur Waage wrote: >> >> > Hmm, >> > >> > I didn't know about the no GPL. I was instructed to keep the original >> > comments to the files. I am converting V8 JS tests from JavaScript to >> PHP, I >> > don't think I am allowed to change the license even if its a conversion >> > though. >> >> If you're converting from javascript to another language (PHP) there is >> no way copyright can be claimed on the code. Which means you have the >> copyright and you can decide on the license. AFAIk, that;s how I >> understand it, but IANAL. >> >> regards, >> Derick >> >> -- >> http://derickrethans.nl | >> http://ezcomponents.org | >> http://xdebug.org >> twitter: derickrethans >> > >