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Copyright protection is a much weaker form of protection with respect to patenting, which only applies to physical artefacts (e.g., a specific electronic chip, a particular engine mechanism, etc). This is at the same time a curse (for the IP owners) and a positive thing (for everybody else), as it allows competitor to develop software that provides the very same functionalities, just implemented differently. This project aims at defining a quantitative framework that clarifies, both from a software engineering viewpoint and from a legal vi
Copyright protection is a much weaker form of protection with respect to patenting, which only applies to physical artefacts (e.g., a specific electronic chip,…