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Nathan · 12-11-2005, 11:57 AM

Chio, this is not against you, its just meant as a warning.

The GPL is very strict. Even if you take 10 lines of code from a 1000 line GPL'd source code and use it in your own system you ARE violating the license.

GPL is an EXTREMELY viral license, that is why many open source people hate it and why there are licenses like BSD.

Rewriting code from scratch without basing it on the old one is very difficult for any programmer and you should be careful that he really does so.

12-11-2005, 11:57 AM
Nathan Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 3,108	Chio, this is not against you, its just meant as a warning. The GPL is very strict. Even if you take 10 lines of code from a 1000 line GPL'd source code and use it in your own system you ARE violating the license. GPL is an EXTREMELY viral license, that is why many open source people hate it and why there are licenses like BSD. Rewriting code from scratch without basing it on the old one is very difficult for any programmer and you should be careful that he really does so. __________________ "Think about it a little more and you'll agree with me, because you're smart and I'm right." - Charlie Munger