Clean room reverse engineering

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

Johannes Buchner <buchner.johannes at gmx.at> writes:
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at des.no> wrote:
>> Vlad Stanimir <vladbv2006 at gmail.com> writes:
>> > I was considering a clean room reverse engineering project of a
>> > proprietary computer game, but i am unsure of the legality of doing
>> > this especially of things like game maps and storyline.
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism
> This page doesn't talk about software. Isn't copyright and trademarks
> the real issues of game clones?

The game engine is one thing, "things like game maps and storyline" is
quite another...

DES
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