body: In quantitative finance SE, there is [a question asking](https://quant.stackexchange.com/questions/3556/generating-or-tracking-the-djubs-commodity-index) for help calculating an index. If someone writes a program that performs the calculations described in the handbook and shares that program publicly, would it violate the index copyright? Or does the translation from English to computer program make it ok?
  
  
  
title: What counts as redistribution of copyrighted calculation?