On 19 June 2012 09:24, Alberto Mardegan <ma...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote: > On 06/19/2012 11:58 AM, Thiago Macieira wrote: >> On terça-feira, 19 de junho de 2012 09.54.15, Peter Kümmel wrote: >>> So even no Apache licensed code could be used within Qt? >> >> Irrelevant. The CLA says that I can only submit code I authored myself. That >> excludes everything that has a copyright, regardless of the license. > > I don't think that Peter was suggesting you to import the code from > "folly", but just to have a look at how it's implemented. IANAL, but I > think that you can have a look at any software code which you obtained > legally, and pick this and that idea from it; as long as you close the > original source file in your editor and let a couple of days pass before > starting writing your own, you are authoring original code. > Just make sure that you empty the clipboard. ;-)
Please, do NOT do that. Stick to clean room implementations. You don't want to be involved in legal matters for copyright infringement because someone argues that you have a good memory and indeed copied the design. Unfortunately, reading/using 3rd party, publicly available code is not OK in general. There are companies that won't allow you to work for them if you ever contributed to open source projects. -- Giuseppe D'Angelo _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development