* Joel Aelwyn: > Or convince someone (quite possibly the origional author) that it is worth > their time to re-implement it. Doing work for hire means you don't own that > copy, but it is in no way a prohibition against you making another copy on > your own time, even if it were to look almost completely identical. Are you sure this is the case in most parts of the world? In Germany, this is highly problematic for the author (it's called "Selbstplagiat").