On Thu, 7 Jun 2007, Frank Duignan wrote:
> If you take a compiler output and convert it to an ascii header
> file to be included as a blob "source code" in a strictly legal
> sense?
In this case: No (as per Ciaran's reasoning).
A header file of constant op-codes on the other hand are simply
uncopyrightable. You can't copyright facts or interfaces, which the
header file in your previous question would be (unless the names
chosen for each constant were incredibly imaginative, rather than
indicative of the function of the op-code).
regards,
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