Author: Uri Blass
Date: 09:53:04 11/28/03
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On November 28, 2003 at 12:20:41, Slater Wold wrote: >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. Let me understand. Suppose you add a lot of lines to the evaluation function of Crafty and delete nothing. Suppose the result is that 40% of the new code is your code. Is it your program by the american law or do you need to change at least 40% of the working code of Crafty I think that the second poddibility is more logical. Note that I understand that in both cases you can copy a lot from Crafty when the code is still your code (for example Crafty's evaluation and data structure is probably less than 60% of crafty's code so a programmer may copy Crafty's evaluation when it is still his program). I do not think that Bob accept it as correct. Uri
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