On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 00:02:28 +0545, Bipin Gautam said: > WHAT/who is stoping you from rewriting the POC making slight changes > in program flow? No that ain't against the law... or is it? At least under US law, "slight changes" would make the POC a "derivative work", which would be against the law without a suitable license from the original copyright holder - and you can't even use "fair use" to wiggle around this one, as the POC would almost certainly require much more code copying than what "fair use" would cover. What *would* be legal is looking at the original, figuring out how it worked, and then writing a totally new and original POC that utilized the same principle (as only the expression is copyrightable, not the idea expressed). Of course, IANAL, and you'd probably want to ask a competent lawyer specializing in intellectual property if you think the lawyer's answer might matter....
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