Leyne, Sean wrote:

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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: dkuzmenko [mailto:dima@...]
>>Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 3:33 AM
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>>You can say words "we don't violate IPL" but don't tell
>>me that FB Team rewrote sources to C++ only for using
>>exceptions and bla-bla-bla C++ features.
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> We don't!
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> If that were true, then why do have we maintained the original
> Borland/IPL headers in the files?
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It did cross my mind at the time :-).

With all the hand coding, + reformatting the code [ Mike Nordel did most
of the hard work], it guarranteed that the new file differed in every
line from the original, and it had a different file name. So in the
IPL's eyes, was it a "new" piece of work?

I suspect that the only way to prove how correct I would be in making
such an assumption, would be with a Microsoft sized legal team and
lobbying slush fund :-).

Cheers

Mark