On October 3, 2003 09:07 am, Patrik Stridvall wrote:
As far as Wine is concerned though I can't think of any Windows API that:
- Returns pure facts (not having any unique expression)
- Would fulfill the requirement of needed a significant effort to collect to collect the fact.
So no I wouldn't worry about it as far as Wine is concerned.
So, you think that:
For all x,y in Unicode: print x,y,strcmpiA(x,y)
is OK?
Short answer: Yes.
Long answer: In the US, it is clearly legal. See Feist.
In the other countries meantioned (Commonwealth etc), well 1. I can't see that any significant effort have made to collect these facts. Each of these facts is very easy to collect for anybody competent in any language that Unicode defines the alphabet for. 2. Unicode comparison order lies more in the area of algoritms and science than any facts about the world that the law have been designed to protected, so courts at least in Sweden would be very reluctant to extend to the law to this since it is doubtful that the lawmakers really intended this.
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Patrik Stridvall