2012/11/14 David Warde-Farley <[email protected]>:
> The legal definition of "derivative work" can make things dicey in these
> situations.

Indeed. If you so much as look at the code while reimplementing it,
that's strictly speaking a copyright infringement, since it's the code
that's copyrighted. Please don't do this, it can get open source
projects in big trouble. (Algorithms can't be copyrighted, only
patented, so you can always implement from a paper that does not list
full source code; IIUC, only when someone *runs* an implementation of
a patented algorithm there's a problem.)

-- 
Lars Buitinck
Scientific programmer, ILPS
University of Amsterdam

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