[sdiy] - Service Manual Project -

[Steff]

Rainer Buchty wrote:
> 
> Of course, there's one thing which could be done (at least for service 
> manuals): redraw the schematics, redraw all diagrams/pictures, retype 
> the text. Then copyright is not violated.

IIRC the test in this country is whether your publication constitutes a 
"derivative work" - I think your proposed method would be very hard to 
defend against such a charge. For an example of a highly successful 
method for working round this sort of problem, have a look at Phoenix's 
reimplementation of the IBM PC BIOS in the early 80s.

S