🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <NELSON.92Jan18224549@cheetah.clarkson.edu> nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) writes:
>In article <1992Jan18.074702.26495@alphalpha.com> nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley) writes:
>
>   If I take a look at some commercial copyrighted code and then go
>   off and write something that does the same thing I run the risk of
>   being sued.  Do I run the same risk from GNU software?  Might you
>   think I had copied GNU code and so insist on inspecting my code?
>
>Yup.  Whenever I hear of a new packet driver, I always try to get a
>copy to see if it contains my code.

Can anyone on the GNU project comment on this?  Have they considered
legal action against clones of GNU software where the authors of said
software might have been "contaminated" by access to GNU source?  On
the one hand this is simply a matter of copyright protection, on the
other it borders on look-and-feel issues.
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I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.