License Laundering and the Death of Clean Room (The Chardet Saga) (opens in new tab)

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6 pointsallixsenos17d ago1 comments

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How is no one noticing that the whole release-a-rewritten-codebase-under-a-permissive-license has happened before, with BSD Unix? This methodology predates clean-room rewrites.

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License Laundering and the Death of Clean Room (The Chardet Saga) (opens in new tab)

(shiftmag.dev)

6 pointsallixsenos17d ago1 comments

1 comments

dlcarrier16d ago

How is no one noticing that the whole release-a-rewritten-codebase-under-a-permissive-license has happened before, with BSD Unix? This methodology predates clean-room rewrites.

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