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by 1ris
4268 days ago
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>There is no concept of "clean room" in copyright law, the only issue is whether or not substantial copying has occurred. While it may be easier for the author to avoid accidental copying if he has never looked at the Monit source code, having seen it, being inspired by its design, or deliberately building a compatible system do not constitute copying. I'm far from a copyright expert, but I think there is. The equivalent of a clean room implementation would be "I read your cover text, and then wrote my own book". What Monit claims what happend would be the equivalent "I read your book in language $x, I translated it to language $y and change a few details to better target audience $z". (What Disney did, but with public domain works). That latter is relevant for copyright. |
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