On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 7:11 PM, David Rees <drees76 AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 6:34 PM, dan <dandenson AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
>> the rync algorythm is actually part of the GPL code released by Andrew
>> Tridgell.
>
> Yes, it is, but you can not Copyright algorithms, and you can't
> protect them from reverse engineering. You can patent an algorithm,
> but I know of no such patents on the algorithms used by rsync (not
> that I've looked).

A reference for my claim:
http://www.iusmentis.com/copyright/software/protection/

-Dave

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