Joined: 4-Jan-2010 Posts: 580
From: London, UK (ex-pat; originally from Norway)
@Hammer
It's a interesting conundrum.
A "software architecture" as defined in the settlement is not protectable by copyright other than as embodied in documentation (e.g. the documentation / specification can be copyrighted) or in an actual program (in which case that embodiment of the architecture - the specific software - will be protected, but not the architecture itself).
You can't copyright an idea, thankfully.
And copyright protection of the actual software requires the code to be very similar in implementation.
But note that the line you quoted does not say anything about copyrighted by whom. It would certainly seem to apply to AROS, but that does not in any way imply that AROS is infringing.
Which makes the construction quite strange. Any embodiment of a software architecture would be "protectable under the copyright laws of the United States", with a very few exceptions (work done by the US federal government for example).
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