Porting ExpressionEngine to CI

[eluser]chobo[/eluser]
Just take a look at every CMS around, they all share the same features, it's impossible for one to be completely unique. Is it copying if one CMS has an add article button and someone else wants that features? No... It's only plagiarism if you sit there and try to copy his program line by line and even then that would be hard to prove.

If you just want to copy a few of the "ideas" used by it, I see no problem, why should you be allowed to patent ideas, or prevent someone else from doing that. Take websites for example how many successful websites out there are NOT cloned. YouTube has a 101 clones and it's run by a large company with the power to go after anyone, and it doesn't. Look at all the digg clones, hell, any program/website that is successful has clones.