<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Lars Tandle Kyllingstad <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lars@kyllingen.net">lars@kyllingen.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
So that leaves the code. Unless SHOO has copy-pasted the code from<br>
Tango, I cannot see how their claim holds any water. There are only so<br>
many ways to figure out which day of the month it is.<br>
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-Lars<br>
</font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br>Very good point. I agree that we don't want to resort to splitting legal hairs, but the relevant test is the abstraction-filtration-comparison test. (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstraction-Filtration-Comparison_test">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstraction-Filtration-Comparison_test</a>)<br>
<br>Basically, this says that, since copyright protects only the expression of an idea, not the idea itself, if two programs do something the same way because that's the only reasonable way to do it then there's no infringement.<br>