Re: Look at other Code

Philippe Eberli wrote:
> Well, the Firewire code of Mac OsX is released under the Apple Public
> Source License (APSL) and available under
> http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/10.3.8/.
> I don't know if it is legal to copy it.

It is allowed to copy and redistribute code under the terms of the APSL.
http://www.opensource.apple.com/apsl/

It is not allowed to put derivatives or portions of APSL-licensed code
under the terms of GPL.

> It qualifies as a 'Free
> Software License' (approved by the FSF) but is 'incompatible with the
> GPL' more Information can be found at
> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/apsl.html.
> But I hope you have at least the permission to have a look at it
> without breaking one of the two license agreements(GPL & APSL)...

Well, does looking at the code + thereby learning about the implemented
ideas/algorithms + re-implementing the ideas/algorithms + licensing the
result under own terms qualify as legal? This is a somewhat rhetoric
question since it is hard to tell how independent a re-implementation is
once the re-implementor read the source of the original implementation.

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