On Monday 16 August 2004 07:11 pm, Karsten Wade wrote: > My head started > > > spinning with "clean room implementation" and other nonsense, until I > > decided to simply write mine and see how it comes out. > > Oh, man, I know where you are coming from. I hope we don't have to > worry about being tainted by other open source projects using different > licenses. Remember that facts are not copyrightable, but the manner in which those facts are presented may be. You may make lists of facts on a subject, then use your own words to write about them. That "fleshing out the skeleton" process is the intellectual property that you provide. A good writer can always find a different way to say something, but we are universally condemned when we find other ways of spelling. 8) -- Hoyt Linux _is_ foolproof; just look at all the Windows gurus who won't use it.
