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Comments are a protectable component of source code

Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 27 2012 @ 12:22 PM EDT

The point is that he has not used the correct terms

There is documentation
There is source code
There is object code

The set of source code is a work as a whole, not a bunch of independently
copyrighted snippets (which would be to short for copyright protection
individually).

The comments are an integral part of that source code.

Those comments do not appear in the object code.

There is absolutely no reason whatsoever to start introducing some
"intermediate layer" of abstraction for some indeterminate conceptual
separation of source code elements that does not exist and will never exist.

Its wrong.

Everything you need to know and need to contextualize Oracles mis-statments and
mis-direction is right here...

http://copyright.gov/

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