Re: Code vs text

[John C Klensin <john-ietf at jck.com>]

--On Tuesday, 24 January, 2006 16:47 +0000 todd.glassey at att.net
wrote:

> How would you deal then with a wrtitten description of the
> code and its flow? - from a patent point, the narrative of the
> system is as important as the mechnical descriptions put forth
> in the claims. My point is that there may be many ID's for
> which the code portions cannot be extracted or isolated from
> the text portions of the document as well.

There is no "patent point".  This discussion has been about
issues in copyright to, and copyright licensing of the text,
possibly including code snippets, pseudocode, interpretable
tables, etc.  Whatever the patent policy is, it doesn't impact
this stuff and this doesn't impact it.  And, fwiw, there have
been zero claims from anyone with obvious competence to have an
opinion (e.g., a law degree and license) that anything more than
our traditional rights to reproduce and distribute in toto are
needed to establish or reference prior art claims.

    john


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