On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 16:51 +0200, Philippe Cerfon wrote: > Ah,.. right... it was the other way round it didn't work (GPL2 to BSD ;) )
Copyright protects the way an idea is expressed, not the idea itself. If Linux had a better entropy collector than OpenBSD, the OpenBSD folks would study the Linux version. They'd learn how it works, they'd learn how it was designed. The Linux developers would probably help them out in this. Once the OpenBSD folks knew exactly how the Linux collector worked and why, they'd go off and hammer out their own version of the Linux collector. It wouldn't take them long. The hardest part of programming is understanding the problem and how the solution you're writing interacts with it. Once you've got that down, the code almost writes itself. It comes together really, really quick. IANAL, if you're doing serious software development talk to your own IP lawyer before you take this seriously, etc., etc. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
