Mathematica to Maxima translation is a derivative work



The supreme court ruled that you cannot patent or copyright an algorithm, but you can copyright a program.  I am not a 
lawyer but I would say just don't copy the code verbatim.

Rich

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Fateman" <fateman at cs.berkeley.edu>
To: "'AAlberto Ruiz Ce?or'" <aalbertoruizcenor at yahoo.es>
Cc: "'Maxima Mailing List'" <maxima at math.utexas.edu>
Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2008 11:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Maxima] Mathematica to Maxima translation is a derivative work


I am not a lawyer, but I think that

If you wrote a program in Mathematica, you own it.
If you run a translator that makes it into a program in Maxima, you own
that.

Wolfram does not own the translation.



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From: maxima-bounces at math.utexas.edu [mailto:maxima-bounces at math.utexas.edu]
On Behalf Of AAlberto Ruiz Ce?or
Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2008 2:33 PM
To: maxima at math.utexas.edu
Subject: Mathematica to Maxima translation is a derivative work


I think that creating a derivative work, such as a translation from
Mathematica to Maxima is copyright by Mma, so who to sue in case of
problems?





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