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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (05 January 2017) [foldoc]:
software law
law
Software may, under various circumstances and in
various countries, be restricted by patent or copyright or
both. Most commercial software is sold under some kind of
software license.
A patent normally covers the design of something with a
function such as a machine or process. Copyright restricts
the right to make and distribute copies of something written
or recorded, such as a song or a book of recipies. Software
has both these aspects - it embodies functional design in the
algorithms and data structures it uses and it could also be
considered as a recording which can be copied and "performed"
(run).
"Look and feel" lawsuits attempt to monopolize well-known
command languages; some have succeeded. Copyrights on
command languages enforce gratuitous incompatibility, close
opportunities for competition, and stifle incremental
improvements.
Software patents are even more dangerous; they make every
design decision in the development of a program carry a risk
of a lawsuit, with draconian pretrial seizure. It is
difficult and expensive to find out whether the techniques you
consider using are patented; it is impossible to find out
whether they will be patented in the future.
The proper use of copyright is to prevent software piracy
- unauthorised duplication of software. This is completely
different from copying the idea behind the program in the same
way that photocopying a book differs from writing another book
on the same subject.
Usenet newsgroup: misc.legal.computing.
["The Software Developer's and Marketer's Legal Companion",
Gene K. Landy, 1993, AW, 0-201-62276-9].
(1994-11-16)