bryan@ihuxf.UUCP (Bryan K. DeLaney) (04/11/84)
I read somewhere that object code technically does not fall under the copyright laws. Has this ever been put to test in a court decision (out of court settlements don't count)? The reason being that object code is not the work of the author, but the work of a machine, and that you can not transform the object code back into the source. ihuxf!bryan AT&T Bell Laboatores p.s. Maybe the copyright laws need to be upated ?
abc@brl-vgr.ARPA (Brint Cooper ) (04/13/84)
Sure, the courts have ruled that copyright laws govern theft of object code. Isn't that what the Franklin ACE/Apple case was all about? And didn't Franklin lose, hands down? Brint Cooper (abc@brl.arpa)