Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 17:33:53 08/23/05
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On August 22, 2005 at 11:05:18, rasjid chan wrote: >Uri, > >You could be in some trouble... because of open source. > >Say you examined how Fruit does king safety and you find that the method is one >of the best. You cannot yet find a better way to do it, ie. any other way to do >king >safety is worst and you cannot emulate his method (without proper authorization) >and you are stuck. Fruit now has an indirect copyright over a method by >publishing >his code. He has copyright but not patent. You can use his method but not his code. That is something I am very sure of. But morally it might make some people angry. And ethically (and possibly legally -- I am not sure) you would need to give credit to the original work.
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