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Re: License restrictions


What are the restrictions on looking at the code and then going off and
completely rewritting it?

What about just looking at the header files and supplied API documentation
and none of the source code?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lewin A.R.W. Edwards" <larwe@larwe.com>
To: "Jonathan Larmour" <jlarmour@redhat.com>
Cc: "Wilson Kwan" <wilson@kinesphere.com>; <ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com>
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 10:23 AM
Subject: Re: [ECOS] License restrictions


>
> > > It seems a shame that the free software movement should cause such
legal
> > > tangling... *sigh*
> >
> >Normally free software authors are the ones trying to do the clean room
> >versions of proprietary implementations!
>
> :) Heheh yes. BTW now I think about it again, it might have been Phoenix
> who did the original PC BIOS clean-rooming.
>
> I wish there was a way around this, there are occasionally bits of Linux
in
> particular that would be very handy... I'm like a cat gazing into the
> goldfish bowl - all this tasty free code that works well, but I can't use
it.
>
> === Lewin A.R.W. Edwards (Embedded Engineer)
> Work: http://www.digi-frame.com/
> Personal: http://www.zws.com/ and http://www.larwe.com/
>
> "Und setzet ihr nicht das Leben ein,
> Nie wird euch das Leben gewonnen sein."
>
>


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