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by thomastjeffery
2524 days ago
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While I happen to agree with you, I think it's important to distinguish the two: What A.G. Barr is insinuating is to regulate algorithms. Copyright is regulation of implementations. For example, GPG is a software implementation of encryption algorithms. It has a copyright (used as the basis for its copyleft license). RSA, however, is an algorithm: a mathematical reality that can be described by copyrighted works, but never itself copyrighted. A.G. Barr has expressed a desire to compel every American who implements that algorithm to do so incorrectly. |
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