I'm quite certain that most jurisdictions in the United States have some sort of laws to prevent the restriction of "clean-room" reverse-engineering... which is why projects like GNU and BSD were even possible to begin with. In any case, this is a huge blow for the big companies and a huge win for the smaller ones.
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I'm quite certain that most jurisdictions in the United States have some sort of laws to prevent the restriction of "clean-room" reverse-engineering... which is why projects like GNU and BSD were even possible to begin with. In any case, this is a huge blow for the big companies and a huge win for the smaller ones.
BSD was not "clean-room", and AT&T sued when it was freely distributed, because they didn't believe that all AT&T code had been removed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USL_v._BSDi