Topic: AutoCAD LispWiki

[Andrea]

to prevent compatibilitie error...maybe this can help...

Code: [Select]

(command "._CHANGE" ps1 "" "_P" "_C" "_BYLAYER" "_LT" "_BYLAYER" "")

[CAB]

How can 10 lines of code be so unique that is is protected?
After all for a simple problem there are a finite number of solutions. Having never seen that solution it is very likely that on your own you would compose a code similar if not exactly like that solution.

[JohnK]

How can 10 lines of code be so unique that is is protected?
After all for a simple problem there are a finite number of solutions. Having never seen that solution it is very likely that on your own you would compose a code similar if not exactly like that solution.

Yeah, almost my point exactly! And, why put a restrictive license on it in the first place? ...But non the less, the restriction is there.

There is something going on (or went on) with all that SCO stuff; i think the second party had to show how much they changed from the orig version, and if it was `enough' change then the code became `original'. For the life of me i cant remember what they called it.

[kdub_nz]

The stupidity of the whole situation is that I (or anyone/someone else ) could conceivably write code that looks familiar/identical, without being aware that the posted code or license existed
How do I demonstrate that I didn't poach it ... and how do they prove I did.

[daron]

I thought all you had to do to make something your own was change one thing. That's the way it is in the housing industry, no? I've seen plans that were an exact copy of someone else's, except the the new "version" had a bathroom adjusted.

[JohnK]

Daron, Think concept not content. No one th

kbwdt, Thats the problem. The autolisp language is such a low level language, its almost pointless to place a restriction on the code.