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A comment on The /bin/true Command and Copyright (2009). Parent comment

Re:The /bin/true Command and Copyright (2009) by randombits0 on Saturday August 21, 2021 @06:23PM (#28261101)
To expand on that idea, purely functional expressions are not copyrightable in the first place. How and when software becomes copyrightable is undefined in law.
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Re:The /bin/true Command and Copyright (2009) by Retr0id on Saturday August 21, 2021 @10:40PM (#28262416)
Why not? Do you have a reference for that?
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Re:The /bin/true Command and Copyright (2009) by kbutler on Saturday August 21, 2021 @11:53PM (#28262718)
US Copyright law: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/102

  (b)In no case does copyright protection for an original work of authorship extend to any idea, procedure, process, system, method of operation, concept, principle, or discovery, regardless of the form in which it is described, explained, illustrated, or embodied in such work.
Thus, if it is simply the description of the algorithm to accomplish a process, it isn't copyrightable (functional processes are the domain of patent law, not copyright). But creative ways of describing an idea or process could be copyrighted...

Further discussion https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ33.pdf https://www.iusmentis.com/copyright/software/protection/

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Re:The /bin/true Command and Copyright (2009) by randombits0 on Sunday August 22, 2021 @09:37AM (#28265350)
I, too, miss GrokLaw…
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