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From: Leif Roar Moldskred <leifm@dimnakorr.com>
Subject: Re: "Borrowing" code
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Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 23:27:26 -0800 (PST), Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com>
 
>>You could write a Harry Potter novel without seeing the original work, too. 
>>J.K. Rowling could then sue you, as her publishers have done, and you would 
>>lose. Are you cool with that?
> 
>     She could sue, and you could win.  Copyright protects against
> copying.  Independently coming up with something is not a copyright
> violation.  Granted that, in this case, it would be difficult to show
> the independence, but in principle, it is possible.

If you wrote a _Harry Potter novel_, i.e. a novel set in the Harry
Potter universe, it would count as a derivitative work and be in
violation of Rowling's copyright, even if most of the work was
original. I don't think that aspect of copyright is relevant for
source code though, but INAL.

-- 
Leif Roar Moldskred