I guess I'm wondering what the legal definition of "reverse-engineer"
means.  To me that means disassemble.  If I just write something that
happens to have the same interface, inputs and outputs, to me that
doesn't qualify as "reverse-engineer" but maybe thats just me.  When my
5 year old stepson imitates my movements and voice intonations I don't
feel like he reverse engineered me :-)

-Andy 

On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 21:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Conor MacNeill wrote:
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> > I don't know. IANAL. We really do need a lawyer. Anyway, in my view, you
> > would not be able to legally run such a reverse engineered clone on a Sun
> 
> You have a lawyer - or rather - the PMC has access to those beast. This is
> being worked on (even today - during the ASF board meeting) - and will be
> resolved. Feel free to keep bringing good examples of potential problems
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> Dw
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