> similar code is OK... exact results are definitely OK... exact code 
 > may not be OK unless it is common and there's no other way...

 JD> How many copyright suits have been filed because of similar code? 
 JD> Way too many, 

incorrect... SIMILAR code is not the problem... /exact/ code is...

an example: Free Pascal is Delphi (7) compatible... when a feature that is
in Delphi is implemented in FPC or Lazarus (a FPC RAD [rapid application
development] environment), one can ask questions about the Delphi
implementation of the function... others who are answering the questions
can look at the actual Delphi library sources to provide those answers...
the coder asking the answers then creates his implementation of the feature
based on those answers... in this way, the coder is not tainted by having
seen the Delphi sources for that feature and they can work out their own
method of implementing the feature...

 JD> and its all up to the interpetation of some judge, who, hopefully, 
 JD> has some technical knowledge 

agreed...

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