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i'm no lawyer, but i've spent a fair amount on them over the years. They
would surely raise the cost/benefit issue here. There is a cost (40k min
through trial) associated with legal action. Is it worth it to them to
do this, even if they are clearly in the wrong. This is roughly a matter
of your success as competition and their estimate of your ability to
counter (they would think long and hard before suing MS).
Your software would be used in multiple jurisdictions. They may sue you
in each.
imo, translating their functions is equivalent to translating a book
from English to French. This is a clear violation of copyright. But
writing the functions from scratch WITHOUT PRIOR REFERENCE TO THE EL
SOURCE is an entirely different issue. Could this be an open source project?
regards,
tbr
Michael Stewart wrote:
Multicharts has an inbuilt EL converter and you can then export as
xml, its seemless. There are a few functions they haven't got
round to doing yet to do with positionkeeping and I think
I_marketposition etc.. maybe thats a copyright issue but they are
still in business...
Wednesday, May 30, 2007, 3:14:00 PM, you wrote:
MS> Really ? And these guys are still in business after 4+ years ?
MS> http://www.viziblesoft.com/elspasswd/index.html
MS> "sue you out of existence"
MS> ....I don't think so......
MS> Huge pissing match at best....IP law = mucho gray areas.
MS> Of course, until we get tort reform, the bigger guy can ALWAYS bully the
MS> small fry.
-----Original Message-----
From: George E Eberhardt [mailto:geberhardt@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 5:26 AM
To: Omega List
Subject: Re: Legal ramifications of translating EasyLanguage
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joel Reymont" <joelr1@xxxxxxxxx>
On May 29, 2007, at 10:25 PM, Bob Fulks wrote:
But converting lines of code, initialization sequences, detailed
functionality, etc., from the original even manually is clearly an
infringement.
I'll convert mechanically and make the results open source. The
translated code won't be part of Topdog and everyone will have a
choice of whether to use the translated EL functions, write
their own
or skip them entirely.
I hope you have lots of time and money for legal work. If
you do this then
the management of Trade Station Securities, Inc would be
derelict in their
duty if they did not sue you out of existence. And in this
case the law is
on their side.
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