Re:Software engineering books to read and reread
by Mandatum on Thursday August 04, 2022 @07:52PM
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What’s the copyright law on taking ideas and principals from a book like that, and rewriting it?
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Re:Software engineering books to read and reread
by westoncb on Thursday August 04, 2022 @08:10PM
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Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like it should be fine. Copyright applies to specific concrete representations and not things like abstract underlying ideas.
Re:Software engineering books to read and reread
by elyseum on Friday August 05, 2022 @02:07AM
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Yes. It applies to what you do / make. You can’t copy (parts of) the written text, but you can act (write your own interpretation) with the ideas in that text.
“Copyright is intended to protect the original expression of an idea in the form of a creative work, but not the idea itself.”