On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 22:16:04 +0300 (EEST), tsiivola@cc.hut.fi wrote:
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, GP lisper wrote:
The safe way would be a "Chinese Wall". Have someone that has looked at the code describe it (at high level, certainly not line-by-line) to someone that has never seen the code.
As far as I can tell this is quite unecessary. As long as you can make a case that the reimplementation is an independent effort, not derivative.
The purpose of the technique is to eliminate any question of source code infringement, i.e. avoid the 'make the case'. This whole question is raised due to the picky nature of Debian licensing desires, and the desire not to cut down slime to meet debian requirements.
If the original author had a problem with that I they could sue me.