> would a "derivative work" ... be considered to have a different intent? Probably not. If intent were to be demonstrated in court, a derivative work would alm

> would a "derivative work" ... be considered to have a different intent? Probably not. If intent were to be demonstrated in court, a derivative work would almost certainly be tainted in turn unless those authors had a _really_ good justification for their actions. (IANAL though; I'm just guessing based on other copyright cases that came up in the media before.) For example, imagine forking Napster back in the day, redoing the UI, and rewriting half of the internals. Do you really think a court would let that fly? Judges are hardly idiots. That being said, why not just mirror the original to a host running as a tor hidden service and continue all development efforts there?