Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Joshua Cranmer Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: =?windows-1252?Q?Re=3A_And_The_Award_For_Most_Legall?= =?windows-1252?Q?y-Encumbered_=93Hello_World=94_Program_=2E=2E=2E?= Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2011 22:21:28 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: <9b584a36-f160-4e01-8e2f-ca3f83f17ee4@x10g2000yqj.googlegroups.com> <5b0642c5-0634-4b8b-98fc-e9bfcbba1064@b42g2000yqi.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 02:21:30 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="bAymlyY9SkaJNa8Tz2rerw"; logging-data="10863"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+bqbaAvEZRwTzYdyP+oZBCr9k0TvMpSWM=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.16pre) Gecko/20110305 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.10pre In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:GDKmQ8cAuAHErqfLvRqrVFNIsAs= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:4914 On 06/02/2011 06:56 PM, BGB wrote: > the "Hello World" string can be classified as a "short phrase", and so > apparently, can't itself be held under copyright. this means that the > "Hello World" program would remain as an original work even with copying > the "Hello World" string from another program. That is not a tenant that exists in law, if I recall my legal history correctly. I can't find the case right now, but the US Supreme Court basically said there is no legal minimum amount that has to be quoted to cause a violation of copyright. -- Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth