building a free AFS client

[Mitch Collinsworth]

... an interesting discussion.

>The truly hard part is not really a technical issue at all.  Those of
>us who know enough to do a free client wouldn't be able to, because most
>of us have AFS source access, which would make it hard to claim that
>the new client had been written without reading and/or using Transarc's
>code...

right.  However what if someone knowledgeable were to simply document
the protocols and interfaces and then someone at another site were to
write new code from that document?  Would the result still be
considered tainted?

-Mitch