Dan Scott, an Evergreen developer Systems Librarian at Laurentian University recently blogged about using code  developed in Koha for a routine he developed in Evergreen which will enable LC call numbers to sort correctly (Dewey works okay today but LC numbers don't).  He says:

Note that this is the first time, to my knowledge, that Koha code has been adopted directly by Evergreen. I included attribution for the copyright holders in both the Generic and Dewey normalization functions. I wrote the Generic implementation in Evergreen from scratch shortly after taking a look at Koha's approach, so in some corners my work would be considered a "derived work". Koha's Dewey normalization function was (somewhat surprisingly) the only open-source implementation that I could find for Dewey, so it made perfect sense to me to adopt that for use in Evergreen. Many thanks to Koha for their use of the GPL v2 or later licence!

Check out Dan's blog, CoffeeCode.net for more info.

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