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From: drd@siia.mv.com (David Dick)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: What documentation is fair/legal to use to develop clone software?
Message-ID: <1990Aug2.202407.21438@siia.mv.com>
Date: 2 Aug 90 20:24:07 GMT
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In <sean.649170360@s.ms.uky.edu> sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) writes:

>mason@tmsoft.uucp (Dave Mason) writes:

>|I am developing a clone of some major AT&T software (exactly *what* is a
>|secret for now).  I obviously don't want the result legally
>|encumbered, as it is to be freely distributable (a la FSF or less
>|restrictive rules).

>|The question is: What can I base my knowledge on?

>And so it begins. How horribly sad that programmers even have to ask such
>questions.

There is nothing sad or horrible about it.  

Doctors and lawyers ask their colleagues questions 
about ethics from time to time; are programmers to
be less professional or less ethical?

David Dick 
Software Innovations, Inc. [the Software Moving Company(sm)]
drd@siia.mv.com -or- uunet!siia!alton!drdick