On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 02:55:52PM -0500, Rich Bowen wrote: > On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Adam Turoff wrote: > > If this is the case, then why not just use the elisp code as a guide > > and reimplement the interesting bits in a perlish manner? CC can serve > > as a body of external documentation on how the code works. > > Yes, I think that this is a very reasonable thing to do, and it is, in > fact, what I have already tried to start doing. However, I would > *really* like R&D's permission and encouragement as well. I don' tthink > that we're on shaky legal ground no matter what they say, but I'd like > to have their blessing. Not sure why particularly. And perhaps it is > worse to ask, because if they say no, then what do we do? But it seemed > like the right thing to do.
I'm not *against* asking for R&D's blessing. It just occurs to me that the threat of patenting the unpatentable has given many developers pause when looking at CC to write date/time code. This is at least the third time it's hit Perl by my count, and it would be nice to work past this impasse once and for all. Thanks for working with these folks, Rich. I contacted them years ago and gave up because the authors weren't very communicative, and the specter of a patent lawsuit wasn't very appealing to me. :-S Z.
