At 21:44 28.05.00 +0200, Stephan Rudlof wrote:

>I have questions regarding copyrights here:
>
>How far can someone 'copy' an existing implementation of a commercial
>Smalltalk?

I'm no laywer etc, but literally copying code is surely against the 
copyright.  One can probably argue about simple renaming or 
reformatting.  Algorithms aren't covered by copyright (you might be able to 
patent them, though, in unfortunately near future in Europe)

Whatever, just to make sure, I didn't say one could copy any kind of 
code.  I'm just fascinated by the beauty of some code or repelled by the 
ugliness of some other code.  Code is poetry for computers, you know...

bye
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Stefan Matthias Aust  //  ...come on, kiss the frog!