Re: Debian-installer, older hardware, boot loaders, miboot & amiboot & ..
On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 03:40:33PM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote:
> Scripsit Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
>
> > There's absolutely no point even implying that we need their permission
> > to reverse engineer anything,
>
> If we are going to distribute code that has been derived by reverse
> engineering, then we do need permission from the original copyright
> holder. It's not the "reverse engineering" that needs permission; it's
> the "distribute derived code".
If it's independently created, it's not derived.
A clean-room reimplementation is an independent creation.
--
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Debian GNU/Linux | A: unzip;strip;touch;finger;mount;
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