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Comment 23 for bug 6765

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Carsten Agger (agger) wrote : Re: [Bug 6765] Re: X.org: material under GLX Public License and SGI Free Software License B is not DFSG-free

> On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 08:57 +0000, Carsten Agger wrote:
>
> Would there be problems with a rewrite if its done by people who have
> looked at the problem code in question (eg, most of the relevent people
> here)? (anyone got a thought?)
> kk
>
>
Not if the new code is obviously not based on the old code. The GNU
project has excellent old guidelines for that.

Point in case should be

1) find out which APIs to implement and which services to offer
2) never ever during the implementation look in or use ideas from SGI's code.

In that case, the rewrite should be safe. Patents is probably a bigger
issue here.

br
Carsten