Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site rabbit.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!alice!rabbit!ark From: ark@rabbit.UUCP (Andrew Koenig) Newsgroups: net.legal Subject: Re: Protection of ideas? Message-ID: <3080@rabbit.UUCP> Date: Tue, 21-Aug-84 18:32:18 EDT Article-I.D.: rabbit.3080 Posted: Tue Aug 21 18:32:18 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 22-Aug-84 01:43:31 EDT References: <267@mb2c.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 5 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.