Re: License for Help Files and startup screen

From: Alex (fletchra@qsilver.queensu.ca)
Date: 08/30/01


> my general feeling on something like that is to open the file up
> scroll to the function of interest and examining it thorourghly while
> writing my own using my own variable names, logic of my own and
> probably a few enchancments as well.
according to the gnu group (and a few others), that's considered to be
the same thing as cut and paste.

if you want to avoid any licensing or copyright, it has to be a "clean"
room rewrite.  which means not looking at the code.  at all.  not even as
a reference.

ae.

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