[DGD] Specific code-license question, DGD server

Alex mud at swavely.net
Thu Feb 27 01:59:33 CET 2003


> There is a perfectly good way to create uncopyrighted code from a
> copyrighted example: study the code at your leasure, then start over
> from scratch, creating an implementation that may have a structure
> similar to the original, but which will none the less be different.
> Unless you have a photographic memory, you will simply write other code
> that mostly does the same thing.

I have done this more times than I can count, because I wanted a feature
that I worked with before and the orginal source wasn't available
anymore..  And even with my own code from way back when that I lost along
the way..

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