IP means nothing. It's a poorly defined conglomerate of vastly different laws, like about brands, patents, models, etc. A library is typically "protected" (tha

IP means nothing. It's a poorly defined conglomerate of vastly different laws, like about brands, patents, models, etc. A library is typically "protected" (that is: artificially restricted) by copyright, and the situation is then blurry but in some cases also patents (depending on the region of the world and/or good lawyers knowing the magic words to patent non-patentable things) and trade secrets.