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Subject: Re: when is a clone a clone?

Author: Slater Wold

Date: 09:20:41 11/28/03

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On November 28, 2003 at 10:46:39, Uri Blass wrote:

>On November 28, 2003 at 10:13:54, Slater Wold wrote:
>
>>USA law (from reading the SCO vs Linux crap) is 40%.
>>
>>If your program has 1,000 lines of code, and 600 of those lines are from Crafty,
>>but 400 of them are 'original' (not renamed), you have your 'own' program.
>
>Do you say that it is not important which lines?
>
>Do you say in other words that if Crafty code includes 40% code of debugging and
>you remove them and enter your code that is the same number of lines then you
>have your program?
>
>Uri

If 40% of the WORKING programs code is your own, then it's YOUR program.  Of
course, if the program is not 'intended' to be run in debug-mode, then you're
probably going to get in trouble.



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