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Re: License restrictions



> > It seems a shame that the free software movement should cause such legal
> > tangling... *sigh*
>
>Normally free software authors are the ones trying to do the clean room
>versions of proprietary implementations!

:) Heheh yes. BTW now I think about it again, it might have been Phoenix 
who did the original PC BIOS clean-rooming.

I wish there was a way around this, there are occasionally bits of Linux in 
particular that would be very handy... I'm like a cat gazing into the 
goldfish bowl - all this tasty free code that works well, but I can't use it.

=== Lewin A.R.W. Edwards (Embedded Engineer)
Work: http://www.digi-frame.com/
Personal: http://www.zws.com/ and http://www.larwe.com/

"Und setzet ihr nicht das Leben ein,
Nie wird euch das Leben gewonnen sein."


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