Date:         Mon, 4 May 2009 09:43:51 -0400
Reply-To:     Gerhard Hellriegel <gerhard.hellriegel@T-ONLINE.DE>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Gerhard Hellriegel <gerhard.hellriegel@T-ONLINE.DE>
Subject:      Re: Copyright (c) 2008 Paul OldenKamp

Copyrights on such things are nonsense. If that were possible, no
programming would be possible any more.
On the other hand, I think

%Let StringToModify1 = This_Is_The_String_To_Modify1 ;
%Let ModifiedString1 = %SysFunc( TranWrd( &StringToModify1 , _ , %Str
( ) ) ) ;
%Put ModifiedString1 = &ModifiedString1 ;

is not under that copyright? So we can continue...

I hope that nobody has the copyright on breathing in and out so I can
continue doing that...

Gerhard




On Mon, 4 May 2009 09:14:03 -0400, Kevin Viel <citam.sasl@GMAIL.COM> wrote:

>On Mon, 4 May 2009 06:42:20 -0500, ./ ADD NAME=Data _null_;
><iebupdte@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
>>I'm browsing at the SAS wiki thing
>>http://www.sascommunity.org/wiki/SAS/Macro_String_Replace_Function
>>whatever it is and see this....
>>
>>
>>%Let StringToModify = This_Is_The_String_To_Modify ;
>>%Let ModifiedString = %SysFunc( TranWrd( &StringToModify , _ , %Str
>( ) ) ) ;
>>%Put ModifiedString = &ModifiedString ;
>>
>>Copyright (C) 2008 Paul OldenKamp... more dribble.
>>
>>What does the copyright refer to?  Can one copyright such a trivial
>>snippet of code.  Surely this is not an attempt to copyright calling
>>TRANWRD via SYSFUNC.
>
>No clue, but if you think that is curious, you should see what the patent
>office is handling with regards to DNA data.  I guess "trivial" is a
>matter of perspective?
>
>You might actually have to pay to genotype certain loci, although in the
>one case with which I am familiar, academic/research use was exempted....
>
>-Kevin