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Everything written is copyrighted, whether it's in a published book or not.
by hgsgm 3y ago
Everything written is copyrighted, whether it's in a published book or not.
- bee_rider 3y agoI wasn’t aware of the issue, but a Wikipedia seems to indicate that there was a concern that the specific implementations of the algorithms in Numerical Recipes are copyrighted, and there’s always a temptation to copy that sort of thing directly out of the book. The linked PDF here is a big collection of mathematical identities. I’m sure their specific representation in the PDF is copyrighted somehow, but there’s no real temptation to use the representation here, just the mathematical idea.
- eesmith 3y agoNot quite. In the US at least, works by the federal government are not covered under copyright. Nor are 'mere facts' (eg, a complete list of phone numbers and names for a region). See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_United_States#Works_subject_to_copyright_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_United_St... . bee_rider already referred to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_Recipes#License https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_Recipes#License so I leave it at that.
- gmiller123456 3y agoThat's not the issue. The license is akin to buying software, then finding out you have to pay an additional license to run it, even on your personal computer.