Andrei's Google Talk

[Walter Bright]

Leandro Lucarella wrote:
> Walter Bright, el  5 de agosto a las 13:34 me escribiste:
>> mwarning wrote:
>>> On Thu, 05 Aug 2010 03:23:25 +0000, BCS wrote:
>>>
>>>> For a number of IP/legal reasons, Walter CAN'T work on LLVM or LDC.
>>> can you please elaborate a bit?
>>> I remember that statement has appeared before,
>>> but I can't remember the reason that was given.
>> Because when I've had the roomful of lawyers do their due diligence
>> on me, saying "I never looked at the source code" is an effective
>> defense against any claims of possible infringement. When I say
>> that, they click their briefcases shut, say "we're done here", and
>> leave.
> 
> That seems a little stupid, there are billions of open source projects,
> and I never hear anyone giving that excuse not to contribute.


Have you ever been specifically grilled by lawyers if you stole code from gcc? I 
have. When people are going to invest a lot of money in your stuff, it better be 
clean.