From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Philip Herron Subject: Re: Code reuse Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 21:12:42 +0100 Message-ID: References: <2e24e5b90910070530p757b3651ne0f7e4a6e8bc8825@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Sitaram Chamarty X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Oct 07 22:20:52 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Mvd00-0003hb-2c for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Oct 2009 22:20:36 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753745AbZJGUNU convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Oct 2009 16:13:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753294AbZJGUNT (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Oct 2009 16:13:19 -0400 Received: from mail-vw0-f203.google.com ([209.85.212.203]:36346 "EHLO mail-vw0-f203.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752662AbZJGUNT convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Oct 2009 16:13:19 -0400 Received: by vws41 with SMTP id 41so2820735vws.4 for ; Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:12:42 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=aAF1JKuBorjbr3QAONYD9VA6jo3Xk8HjpLb3dyBkjeM=; b=pbh6jFVtfq4qAvk+Ozq+jw5DyhbzHnNnYj6+G72U9JcCuELI+L6vybMlenJrempGOt wpUey2ZhVjioIwpomGwKOj2tjh7M6YdIIB+dHHgTP9CV4mH6vB+zTZOQFy+DtGQp5StK dbJGx5kBqg6WGZwFoTjNralCfcvf+u8MF3XLg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=JGtbVw0BjGri4E+439Ta5ew2+uyZZHDaoWhTm+xMxYkdtm/Ps6w+o8BEH+ChCBebEg akZYdzMi3owDRh5OhFrgRnal4mBSdSH+kRAdNDSr6zZNySATubYpExh57XIfdKvV2tOX EX4jX5JfgxFynsDp0mhmG/ZvJalXjfGQPC4eM= Received: by 10.220.69.90 with SMTP id y26mr572428vci.51.1254946362277; Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:12:42 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <2e24e5b90910070530p757b3651ne0f7e4a6e8bc8825@mail.gmail.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Thanks for that i am no legalese speaker so yeah ;). Its only really the alloc_nr but its renamed is nearly the same the other really isnt the same only just 2 statements with different identifiers remain. Thanks anyways git-core is nice :) --Phil 2009/10/7 Sitaram Chamarty : > On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 12:48 AM, Philip Herron > wrote: > >> I am not sure if this is the right place to ask this question, but >> I've been working on a personal project a programming language >> interpreter for some time now, but i took 2 code snippets from >> git-core namely: > > [snip] > >> I've changed it a good bit (probably doesn't resemble much of what i= t >> was) to fit in with the way my stuff works but is there anything i >> need to like put in my source code to say hey this is based of >> git-core, so far is just a comment to say 'based of git-core hash.c'= =2E >> Its an open source (GPL) program but i haven't released or made much >> noise about it yet because i want to work on it more myself. > > In general, the GPL's main requirement is that whoever gets the binar= y > should also get the code (I'm over simplifying but that's basically > it). =A0It actually doesn't say much about giving credit, except (fro= m > ): > > "If the software is modified by someone else and passed on, we want > its recipients to know that what they have is not the original, so > that any problems introduced by others will not reflect on the > original authors' reputations" > > and > > "a) You must cause the modified files to carry prominent notices > stating that you changed the files and the date of any change." > > That's basically it... > > It would seem to me that, if you changed them significantly, and goin= g > by the above logic, you don't need to do *anything* regarding > attribution. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at =A0http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >