[ILUG] Header files and GPL

Rick Moen rick at linuxmafia.com
Fri Jan 16 20:05:44 GMT 2009


Quoting Frank Duignan (frank.duignan at gmail.com):

> Are register names copyright-able?

Copyright extends only to creative works (in areas of endeavour defined
by statute), so no. 

Also, looking on a finer level, a work's purely functional elements (as
opposed to ones having creative nature) are not copyright-eligible.




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