"There are a number of approaches that are commonly used to bypass
GPL license restrictions. ... Another strategy is to reverse engineer
a GPL product in a different programming language, that way, there
would exist two completely different sets of source code"
I know from copyright studies that mere translation into a different
language is well-established as NOT breaking copyright. Therefore I'm
fairly certain that translation alone can't free code from the GPL.
Mere translation won't break copyright. But, true reverse engineering (i.e.
studying the TCP/IP comm traffic between a client and server and
implementing your own client library based on this study) would seem to
work. There are plenty of examples where a reverse engineered clone got past
copyright and licensing.
Good to know the proxy model is being used else where and seems to get
around the issue.
Daniel L. Taylor
Taylor Design
Computer Consulting & Software Development
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.taylor-design.com
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