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Re: RC2 protected by copyright?
>RC2, though, as 256 bytes of seemingly random data at the head of it,
>in a permutation table. This is clearly not any idea, but a bit of
>text. This text would have to be copied to any interoperable RC2.
>(You could surely use some different permutation, and probably most
>of the 256! permutations would be equally secure, but would not
>interoperate with RC2). I would expect that this copying of text be
>held to be a violation of copyright.
What about "merger"? If there's only one way to write a table to make it
interoperable, could it be ruled that the idea has merged with its expression
and thus be legal to copy?
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