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At 09:34 PM 9/4/2003, Rahul Siddharthan wrote:
  
>Brett Glass wrote:
>> If you view GPLed code, and then write something similar, you are
>> open to claims that your work is derivative of the GPLed code and
>> therefore must likewise be GPLed.
>
>You are open to the same sort of claims if you view closed-source code
>(under, say, an NDA, or in a book where the authors have not
>relinquished copyright for the code).

Yes, you are.

>However, with the GPL, the FSF or whoever owns the copyrights will be
>satisfied if you remove the offending code fragments: 

Not true. If the GPL is enforceable (which I believe it's not, but I do
not have the money for a test case), they've gotcha. Remember, the GPL
says that it's permanent and irrevocable.

--Brett Glass