Legal/Permission Question

[Derek Parnell]

On Tue, 03 Apr 2007 18:42:58 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:

> Gregor Richards wrote:
>> Including major copyrighted aspects of an original, previously created 
>> work is by definition copying. My very simple definition, while not very 
>> nuanced, is accurate :)
> 
> Using the original implementation as a guide to making a clone is making 
> a derivative work. I'm not a lawyer, but I have been grilled and basted 
> by well-paid lawyers doing their due diligence about these things.

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.

-- 
Derek
(skype: derek.j.parnell)
Melbourne, Australia
"Justice for David Hicks!"
4/04/2007 11:46:07 AM