I don't see any gotcha.
I would probably not need Vendor X's documentation and/or output
to reimplement the program.
You might if they were sufficiently clever. I can think of several
pieces of software where the vendor has managed to implement something
in a non-obvious way that has
VAB writes:
[...] I've been
wondering about dual licensing for some time now. The example that
brought it to my attention was the PHP licensing. PHP consists of
an interpreted programming languages (much like perl), and a run time
for that interpreter. When you download PHP from
They would, if he didn't insist on saying things that puzzle and alienate
and frighten people so often.
I don't do this a tenth so much as you would encourage people to
think. As the leader of the GNU Project, most of what I do nowadays
is dealing with people--mostly hackers, but some
It's in zip format; apologies to gzip purists but
I am just way too tired to work it all right now
when I can use the Zip-O-Matic pull-down ...
At present, there is no free software which can decode it. But I
believe that the InfoZIP people are going to change the license soon.
So
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