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> The bottom line here, for this paragraph, is that if you don't like the

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> license terms, you are perfectly free to write your own version of the

> wheel, just do it in a clean room, you cannot have ever seen a copy of that

> source code.  If, OTOH, you are not capable of doing that, and the only way

> to get the job done is to use something that has a license that is

> distasteful to you, then you should retrain your taste buds and comply with

> the terms.  The license & copyright notices the author chooses to put on

> his output ARE what he/she puts on it and you have zero rights to decide

> otherwise.

>

In Canada, at least, the above is not quite true. I don't know about

elsewhere, but we are fortunate to still have protections for educational

use, so I definitely can learn from other peoples code, regardless of

license, and then re-implement it myself. Where the line is between copying

and re-implementing based on education is for the courts to decide, but

just thought i should point out that 'never having seen the source code'

would only be an issue IFF the infringement was already judged to be

copying.
By which I meant to say, if copying is determined to be infringing. IE, it

doesn't matter that a bebop contrafact is obviously a copy, because

copyright law already states that chord progressions aren't copyrightable.
iain
Iain
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