Re: Copyright problems for the opensource reimplementation of a closed-source library (ITP #679504)

[Gergely Nagy <algernon@madhouse-project.org>]

Christophe-Marie Duquesne <chmd@chmd.fr> writes:

> On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net> wrote:
>> To avoid any implication that anything from the headers has been
>> copied, why not just use the output of "nm [-D]".  This is the
>> interface that programs use to link with the library, and is
>> what you need to provide as a drop-in replacement.
>
> I am not sure I could use that. nm does get you the name of the
> symbol, but it does not get you the signature.

You get that from examining appropriately licensed source code that uses
the library.

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