On mercoledì 6 febbraio 2008, Ben Finney wrote: > On 05-Feb-2008, no-reply wrote: > > Ended that experience, I decided to develop from scratch a "clone" > > of such model. I didn't absolutelly copy any class, function, > > algorithm, line or whatsoever of such program, even because, as it > > has been developed for tens of years by different people in > > different contests, it was quite a "spaghetti code" and it wasn't > > very clear at all! > > Did you have access to the code in order to develop your system? Yes, I had
> If so, you will have a difficult time showing that your work is not a > derivative of the earlier one. It is for this reason that the "clean > room" <URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design> > implementation approach is often taken. Did you take such an approach, > and can you show evidence that this is the case? I completelly "forgot" the old code (of witch I didn't got really much understanding on many parts) and started my own one from scrath. My CVS can show how this has been started from nothing and little-little growing in dimensions and functionality, sometimes taking dead branches, and so on. > > Rather, I started again with the very general concepts and I > > re-wrote from scratch the program, that ended being rather different > > from those original and I published it as GPL. > > This statement would seem to be the basis of what you're claiming. The > issue would be whether you can show evidence that you implemented your > work without infringing copyright in the earlier work. I ran "CodeMatch" from SAFE (http://www.safe-corp.biz/) and got no matching, exept for the initial #ifndef, #define, #include [...] sequence. The results are here: http://regmas.org/codeMatch/ > Is copyright the only violation they are claiming? Ignore meaningless > "intellectual property" claims and look for what specific law they > claim you're violating. > For now they only speak about "intellectual property rights", they never cite copyrights as well. > > Thanks, > > Antonello Lobianco > > Please fix your "From" field in the header of your messages, so that > it shows your name. > done ;-) _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
