[sldev] Re: [PROTOCOL] Protocol Documentation

[Adam Frisby]

Still technically copying something - so copyright law applies and your 
bound by the licensing terms. Sucks, but that's the way it is.

Adam

Lawson English wrote:

> Dale Glass wrote:
> 
>> On Wednesday 03 October 2007 22:53:15 Adam Frisby wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> Well, a more liberal license isnt a problem there since it doesnt matter
>>> if you use the copyright elsewhere or not.
>>>     
>>
>>
>> The BSD people disagree.
>>
>> See the recent flamewar between the Linux and OpenBSD people.   
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> 
> I think its more a flamewar by the GPL people against the FreeBSD people 
> BECAUSE the FreeBSD people want to do something against the spirit of 
> the GPL.
> 
> First came an intent counter to the spirit of the GPL and then a license 
> to allow that intent to legally manifest in source.
> 
> 
> I'm still not sure why the GPL itself would require "clean room" 
> practices to copy *functionality*, even into a proprietary bit of code. 
> I guess to avoid the taint of potential contamination by copying text 
> verbatim rather than merely grabbing ideas...? As long as you don't do 
> huge amounts of cutting and pasting, and stick to your own variable and 
> function [re]naming scheme,  when you do cut and paste, I can't see how 
> legal issues would apply unless you were really careless when renaming 
> or really liberal in how much cutting and pasting you actually did.
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> 
> Lawson
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