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From: ark@rabbit.UUCP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: net.legal
Subject: Re: Protection of ideas?
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Date: Tue, 21-Aug-84 18:32:18 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 21 18:32:18 1984
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As far as I know, if I write a program in C and you translate
it into Fortran, that translation is a copy and thus illegal
under the copyright law, which specifically defines 'copy'
as including 'translation.'  The situation is no different
from translating a novel from English into French.