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From: Niclas Hedhman <niclas@hedhman.org>
To: legal-discuss@apache.org
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: MySQL licensing policy]
Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 19:01:30 +0800
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On Saturday 07 April 2007 18:50, Roland Weber wrote:
> The safe way is a clean room implementation: let person A
> analyse the GPLed code and write a specification of the protocol.
> Then let person B, who never looked at the GPLed code, implement
> the protocol "in a clean room", based exclusively on the spec
> written by person A.

How can the "specification of the protocol" not be derivative work, and there 
would also need to be GPL'd??
IP rights are not limited to a particular medium, form or format.

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