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Re: GPL traitor !
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ZnU |
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Re: GPL traitor ! |
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Thu, 14 May 2009 21:08:57 -0400 |
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In article <guff2i$6ji$1@colin2.muc.de>, Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
wrote:
[snip]
> Eh? What's that got to do with anything? It just means you're free to
> crack a program restricted by "technological measures" to discern its
> external data formats and interfaces, so that you can build a compatible
> program. That's irrelevant for GPL'd programs, since the source code is
> available, and (by definition) GPL3 programs don't contain such
> "technological measures". I suppose you might crack a GPL program as a
> technical exercise, training for cracking close source programs, but so
> what?
Hmm.... There's an interesting question here. Let's say you want to
write a proprietary program that implements the same file format as a
GPL'd program. Can you really just read the source code to figure out
that file format, and then go write your app? Or do you have to go
through a clean-room process, where you have one guy look at the GPL'd
code and write up a spec, and another guy write the code to implement it?
[snip]
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- Re: GPL traitor !, (continued)
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- Re: GPL traitor !, Joerg Schilling, 2009/05/20
- Re: GPL traitor !, Hyman Rosen, 2009/05/19
- Re: GPL traitor !, Joerg Schilling, 2009/05/20
- Re: GPL traitor !, Peter Köhlmann, 2009/05/19
- Re: GPL traitor !, Alan Mackenzie, 2009/05/18
- Re: GPL traitor !, Hyman Rosen, 2009/05/18
- Re: GPL traitor !, Peter Köhlmann, 2009/05/15
- Re: GPL traitor !, Alan Mackenzie, 2009/05/14
- Re: GPL traitor !, Alexander Terekhov, 2009/05/14
- Re: GPL traitor !,
ZnU <=
- Re: GPL traitor !, Alan Mackenzie, 2009/05/15
- Re: GPL traitor !, Hyman Rosen, 2009/05/15
- Re: GPL traitor !, ZnU, 2009/05/15
- Re: GPL traitor !, Rjack, 2009/05/13
- Re: GPL traitor !, Alan Mackenzie, 2009/05/11
- Re: GPL traitor !, Hyman Rosen, 2009/05/11
- Re: GPL traitor !, Alan Mackenzie, 2009/05/11
- Re: GPL traitor !, Hyman Rosen, 2009/05/11
- Re: GPL traitor !, Alan Mackenzie, 2009/05/11
- Re: GPL traitor !, Hyman Rosen, 2009/05/11