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antientropic on Oct 2, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Free Lossless Image Format

Studying GPL'ed source code does not "taint" anything. You're absolutely allowed to do that. If you're really concerned about subconsciously copying elements of the original into your implementation, you could let somebody else study the original and write a spec.

dagw on Oct 2, 2015 | [–]

Studying GPL'ed source code does not "taint" anything.

This is far from my area of expertise, but lawyers smarter than me about these things disagree.

nickpsecurity on Oct 2, 2015 | [–]

That's what I had people do.

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