Scripsit Lewis Jardine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Henning Makholm wrote:
> > The problem with clean-room implementations is not so much producing > > them as debugging and testing them enough to be reasonably sure that > > they will work in *all* computers that were built to accept the > > original. If we could (legally) produce something what is bitwise > > identical to the original, we could sidestep that whole problem. > Is it legal to have a third-party look over the copyrighted and the > cleanroomed bootsectors, and see if they're the same (and tell parties > one and two either 'yes' or 'no'), or does that contaminate p1/p2? If the procedure is understood by the parties involved as being a way to home in on identity, then the result will certainly be encumbered with whatever copyright (if any) applies to the original. -- Henning Makholm "Det er jo svært at vide noget når man ikke ved det, ikke?"
