On Monday 16 August 2004 07:11 pm, Karsten Wade wrote:
My head started
> spinning with "clean room implementation" and other nonsense, until I
> decided to simply write mine and see how it comes out.
Oh, man, I know where you are coming from. I hope we don't have to
worry about being tainted by other open source projects using different
licenses.
Remember that facts are not copyrightable, but the manner in which those facts
are presented may be. You may make lists of facts on a subject, then use your
own words to write about them. That "fleshing out the skeleton" process is
the intellectual property that you provide. A good writer can always find a
different way to say something, but we are universally condemned when we find
other ways of spelling. 8)
--
Hoyt
Linux _is_ foolproof; just look at all the Windows gurus who won't use it.