Re: Smith Chart

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From: Joel Kolstad
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 16:26

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I have a question about this Smith Chart copyright discussion...

How is it that you can copyright what is basically the mere plot of a
mathemetical function!? (z=(1+k)/(1-k))

I mean... if I really didn't have better things to do with my time, I could
have my HP-48 plot a Smith chart, right?  Would that be copyright infringement?

I realize that if you have _the_ Smith chart produced by ??? Electric, you
can't copy it -- just like a book.  But if you regenerate the plot from the
mathematical model?  This seems odd to me...  if so, pretty soon people
will want to copyright things like the Mandelbrot set, etc.!

Very strange...

						---Joel Kolstad

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Date: 12 Oct 92 11:26:07 CDT
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