Legal/Permission Question

Walter Bright newshound1 at digitalmars.com
Tue Apr 3 19:31:06 PDT 2007


Derek Parnell wrote:
> Even if one uses it is a guide to how *not* to do things? That is, the
> clone is created in a form that is deliberately and explicitly not like the
> original - and this can be done because they know the original.

My experience has been that you're ok if you look at something, and then 
implement something in an utterly different way. But you're still better 
off not looking at it at all. Look at all the effort IBM had to put in 
to defend themselves against SCO because IBM had peeked at the code.



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