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		faragon on Dec 21, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: “I am not authorizing you to release a Ruby port o... Clean room design, anyone? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design

mistercow on Dec 21, 2014 [–]

Since it's BSD licensed, you could make a port as a derivative work, and then license that under BSD just fine.

That is, if it weren't for the patent issue. And clean room design doesn't help against patents.

faragon on Dec 21, 2014 | [–]

Yes. That's the point.

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