Scripsit Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 03:40:33PM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote:
> > It's not the "reverse engineering" that needs permission; it's > > the "distribute derived code". > If it's independently created, it's not derived. It's not, in the scenario I am talking about. > A clean-room reimplementation is an independent creation. My suggestion was NOT to do a clean-room implementation. -- Henning Makholm "I tried whacking myself repeatedly with the cluebat. Unfortunately, it was not as effective as whacking someone else."