In article <[email protected]>, Alexander Terekhov <[email protected]> wrote:
> Barry Margolin wrote: > [...] > > But the program to be copied is NOT open source. He wants to > > reimplement it as open source, but he has to be sure that the new > > version doesn't contain any vestiges of the original one that he wrote > > as a work for hire. > > http://digital-law-online.info/lpdi1.0/treatise27.html > > "One way to avoid infringement when writing a program that is similar to > another program is through the use of a clean room procedure. This is > what was done when companies cloned the BIOS of the IBM personal > computer to produce compatible systems. In a clean room procedure, there > are two separate teams working on the development of the new program. Isn't this the exact same clean-room description I responded to earlier in the thread? Are you all suggesting that the programmer should hire a team, describe his original program to them, and then have them write the new one? So the original programmer is effectively "team 1", and he hires a "team 2" to rewrite the program for him? -- Barry Margolin, [email protected] Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me *** *** PLEASE don't copy me on replies, I'll read them in the group *** _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
