Still not a copyright infringement [LWN.net]

Still not a copyright infringement

Posted Sep 17, 2003 1:20 UTC (Wed) by Zakaelri (guest, #15087)
In reply to: Still not a copyright infringement by Zakaelri
Parent article: Maybe SCO had a point

I am very sorry for the unreadability of the third and last paragraph in
the above post... Let's see if I can make sense of them:

The only problem with this technique is that the files would have to have
the same names/etc for it to work... If memory serves, there were some
cases (such as the SGI driver code, previously dissected and discussed by
Bruce Perens) where the copied code was actually in a different file than
it's System V equivalent. This makes the problem of finding copyright
infringement in the current codebase become unmanagable... the complexity
of the algorithim necessary to complete such a task might as well be
NP-complete.

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