From help-request at octave dot org Mon Jul 18 11:08:25 2005
Subject: Re: bicubic spline interpolation in octave
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Francesco Potorti` <Potorti at isti dot cnr dot it>
Cc: Hoxide Ma <hoxide_dirac at yahoo dot com dot cn>, help@octave.org
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 12:03:18 -0400

On 18-Jul-2005, Francesco Potorti` wrote:

| And yes, if you end up rewriting the original code as it was, you are
| probebly infringing, but I think that's a very corner case, don't you
| agree? 

I think you would have a hard time showing that your work is not
infringing if you have seen the original and you end up rewriting the
original code as it was.

It is much better to simply avoid the issue by not using the original
to understand the method.

jwe



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