On 27 May 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-05-27 at 00:08, Andre Hedrick wrote:
> > All of the original code described how to make the hardware operate. If
> > your code makes the hardware operate, then it uses material copyrighted
> > and owned by me.
>
> Really. You think if I read a GPL'd example of a piece of code I can't
> write a non GPL'd one. Companies use two sets of people to ensure that
It is one thing to take and read a GPL code and write non-GPL.
This is different from taking GPL code and writing another GPL code.
> there are no questions (one set write the spec, the other to write from
> that spec in a different building).
>
> > I suggest you think real hard and long about your decisions to go about
> > calling derived works from stolen/deleted Copyrights.
>
> Rude yes, but derived work.. open question. I guess Eben can give you a
> reasonably sane opinion if its so important.
>
Andre Hedrick
LAD Storage Consulting Group
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