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Is this for legal or product reasons or both? It’s hard to tell from the link.
by dc-programmer 4y ago
Is this for legal or product reasons or both? It’s hard to tell from the link.
- ryukafalz 4y agoLegal reasons; it's in a section titled "Legal Issues". The idea is if you're cloning an existing program, it needs to be clear that you're not copying code from the original. This may be less of an issue with the other free implementations we have now, but a lot of these were clones of proprietary UNIX programs, and then it's really important that you can tell it's not derived from the proprietary version.
- dc-programmer 4y agoGot it, thanks for the explanation and context