Mark Mielke <m...@mark.mielke.cc> writes: > What are clean room implementations for if not for avoiding copyright > violation?
Avoiding contract violations such as promises to keep source code secret. A strict clean room implementation also makes it clear that no copyright violation could have occurred. > At my company, we took things seriously to the point of > dividing the GPL designers from the non-GPL designers to prevent code > fragments from being leaked to one side or the other, even if just a > faint memory that ends up resulting in code that looks just about > exactly like the original, even if the author cannot identify what the > original was. I think that was entirely unnecessary on your part, though of course lawyers, like anybody else, will tend to ask for whatever they can get. I won't respond further on this subthread on the list, it has nothing to do with gcc. Ian
