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>> whether or not it is a clean-room reverse-engineered code, like Wine/ReactOS > No. Not clean room, not chinese wall. If it's not clean room, then there's p

>> whether or not it is a clean-room reverse-engineered code, like Wine/ReactOS > No. Not clean room, not chinese wall. If it's not clean room, then there's probably copyright violations. For reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design Also, offering commercial licensing? That's a good way to get a lot worse than just a DMCA takedown.

wolfgke 10y ago
> If it's not clean room, then there's probably copyright violations. This is the law in the United States. From the links given in the readme file the authors are probably from Russia.
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- Iv 10y ago
  As a non-US citizen, I can't wait to see a world where a whole IT industry will exist without caring much about merchandability in the US.
  - striking 10y ago
    Copyright extends beyond the US, due to certain treaties. But yes, Antigua's IT industry could get very interesting if they get to keep the whole copyright haven thing going.
- janoc 10y ago
  Copyright applies in Russia too. There are bits and pieces straight "reused" from other software - by his own admission. So his claim that he is a sole copyright owner is patently false - this code could be trivially attacked as a derivative work. No sane person would touch it by a 10 foot pole.
  - wolfgke 10y ago
    I don't know much about Russian copyright law, but at least the idea of the German copyright law (Urheberrechtsgesetz) is very different from the US one. Here the central concept is the "Urheberschaft" (authorship; this implies that you have to be acknowledged as author) which cannot be sold, donated, refused etc. (as opposed to in the copyright law). The only thing that can be sold are the Nutzungsrechte (rights of use), which allow to redistribute the work and make money from it. Thus in Germany there exists for example no analogue to public domain work: Since Urheberschaft cannot be donated, one simply cannot put works under public domain, see for example https://www.sqlite.org/copyright.html https://www.sqlite.org/copyright.html

wolfgke 10y ago

> If it's not clean room, then there's probably copyright violations. This is the law in the United States. From the links given in the readme file the authors are probably from Russia.

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Iv 10y ago
As a non-US citizen, I can't wait to see a world where a whole IT industry will exist without caring much about merchandability in the US.
- striking 10y ago
  Copyright extends beyond the US, due to certain treaties. But yes, Antigua's IT industry could get very interesting if they get to keep the whole copyright haven thing going.
janoc 10y ago
Copyright applies in Russia too. There are bits and pieces straight "reused" from other software - by his own admission. So his claim that he is a sole copyright owner is patently false - this code could be trivially attacked as a derivative work. No sane person would touch it by a 10 foot pole.
- wolfgke 10y ago
  I don't know much about Russian copyright law, but at least the idea of the German copyright law (Urheberrechtsgesetz) is very different from the US one. Here the central concept is the "Urheberschaft" (authorship; this implies that you have to be acknowledged as author) which cannot be sold, donated, refused etc. (as opposed to in the copyright law). The only thing that can be sold are the Nutzungsrechte (rights of use), which allow to redistribute the work and make money from it. Thus in Germany there exists for example no analogue to public domain work: Since Urheberschaft cannot be donated, one simply cannot put works under public domain, see for example https://www.sqlite.org/copyright.html https://www.sqlite.org/copyright.html