Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by intlect 5817 days ago
It's actually a matter of proving it was copied and not written like that on account of, you know, good coding practice.
3 comments

http://ma.tt/2010/07/syn-thesis-1/#comments

Search for the third match of "Rick Beckman"

"I’m the one who contributed that particular chunk of code to Thesis. A lot of stuff in that particular file was done by me simply because at the time I didn’t know any better & I’m not sure if Chris & I had even discussed the GPL at that point or not."

I agree there are really simple calls that just seem to use normal naming conventions, and is this the only section that has this potential issue?
Right, otherwise we have moved into software-patent area (and correct me if I’m wrong, but there are no software patents that apply).