[OT} How to un-GPL parts of a GPL'd module.

[TeaAndBikkie]

> some quotable stuff lost in the thread :)

How does the licence stand wrt reverse engineering?

Say Alice who has seen the GPL'd code fragment, asks Bob who hasn't, to produce
something with X inputs and Y outputs, and Bob reinvents the same algorithm,
would Bob's code then be free from the GPL? Does it depend on complexity,
common knowledge, or anything?

--Misha

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