maphew

Rewriting another's code safely

2020-Feb-15 

…its license is unclear. You should probably not reuse any of the code in other projects. 

But studying the code before writing one's own is okay right? 

That's a gray area. Much safer to have some one else study the code and create a specifications document. Then design and implement new code from the document. 

From < https://fossil-scm.org/forum/forumpost/37c61dc0d2