Basics of copyright

Posted Jan 7, 2004 23:45 UTC (Wed) by bojan (subscriber, #14302)
Parent article: Holiday cheer from the SCO Group

This part seems to be escaping SCO all the time. You cannot copyright numbers, words, letters or anything like that. So, one could simply write:

#define ONE 1
#define TWO 2
#define THREE 3
...

#define EPERM ONE
#define ENOENT TWO
#define ESRCH THREE
...

And avoid copyright infringement altogether. That is providing any such header file can be copyrighted in the first place and Linus actually pinched those files, both of which seems not to be true.

Why do they even bother to come up with this kind of nonsense, I fail to understand.