One of the genes that I believe that my manager has the copyright to has been tentatively linked to aggression; so I think breathing is still OK but you aren't allowed to be mean anymore without permission :-).

-Mary

----- Original Message ----- From: "Gerhard Hellriegel" <gerhard.hellriegel@T-ONLINE.DE> To: <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 8:43 AM 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