[OT] xTalk Legal Status

[J. Landman Gay]

Dan Shafer wrote:

 > So I draw the (tentative) conclusion (with no research into recent 
case law
 > and a big caveat that I'm not a practicing attorney, just a law-trained
 > layman) that the xTalk *language* would not be subject to copyright 
but the
 > underlying programming code that makes that instrction set work would be.
 > Thus I can write an xTalk that is command-for-command identical with
 > Transcript as long as I use different code, algorithms, language, etc.,
 > underneath it all.

Thanks for the clarification, Dan. That's sort of what I was trying to 
say, but you said it better.

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