Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> Warp wrote:
>>>   Copyright applies to actual software source code. It does not apply to
>>> algorithms nor functionality. If you create a program which behaves in the
>>> same way as another program you are not infringing copyright, as long as
>>> your code is original.
> 
>> I think it's a little different in the USA.  You're infringing on the 
>> copyright if you copied the code.
> 
>   I fail to see how what you are saying is different from what I said.
> 
>   I said that code is protected by copyright, behavior isn't. You said that
> code is protected by copyright.

I was implying that he wasn't creating the drivers from scratch. He was 
modifying the existing drivers.

>   I suppose in countries where monetary sanctions are smaller also suing
> to intimidate is rarer, but it still exists. I know of cases here in
> Finland where people have been scared into complying because of lawsuit
> threats, and the cases were more or less dubious.

I think it's more the legal costs than the costs of losing. You can 
spend a million bucks on lawyers to win a $100K lawsuit, sadly.

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     "That's pretty. Where's that?"
          "It's the Age of Channelwood."
     "We should go there on vacation some time."

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