On 18 September 2015 at 15:51, Christof Stocker
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Actually, now that I think of it, thats not completely true. I did look at a
> MIT licensed code that is very related. Although my code is not in any way
> based on it. But I guess it's fair to say that it influenced me by looking
> at it. What's the proper way to deal with this situation? Sorry for
> hijacking this thread
Well, if you want to be truly paranoid you can apply something like
"Clean room design" [1]. This is how the BSD community has
"liberated" some GPL drivers. Then again, if you looked at MIT code
(which is permissive) you only need to provide attribution, as in
"This work contains code that was in part inspired by X". Yet again,
if you only glanced at some code and it is unlikely that anyone will
ever know that you did, it is really up to you and conscience/common
sense to determine if the level of inspiration really warrants a
mention in the first place.
Pontus
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design
