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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)
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Nie wird euch das Leben gewonnen sein."