Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Re: Copyright Question

Take your OT ramblings somewhere else.

On Oct 31 14:49:45, openbsd.girl@pm.me wrote:
> If I use, 'tr' to replace all characters in a source file; or if I replace every token with something else; so that the structure and integrity stays the same, but it becomes an entirely new product, can I copyright the new product and build my own tokenizer that parses it and runs the program in the same way.
>
> e.g.
>
> { if(i==0){ print(i); } }
>
> becomes:
> swiss nuggets /ale++wash\ swiss
> twister/ale\tousle ssiws ssiws
>
> Can I copyright the latter text?
>
> Or take this for thought, what if Windows 11 iso was the binary representation of a number, which it is; does that mean a mathematician can't publish that number in decimal base in a textbook?
>

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