On 2017-12-01 23:45, Walter Bright wrote:
I had forgotten, permission indeed was in my email archives from 2011.
But a problem remained - to anyone looking at the file, it looks like we
copied the code and changed the license without permission. So I added a
comment clarifying that we did have permission.
In addition to that, the first commit for that module was a copy paste
of the PHP code, which is Boost licensed [1]. I was a suggestion by you
and turned out to be really useful, both for this topic and for catching
issues in porting the PHP code to D.
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I once received a furious email from a person who said I stole his
software and was distributing it without permission. I dug back through
my archives, and forwarded him his own email granting me permission.
Dodged a bullet on that one.
I once solicited and received permission from K+R to quote sections of
their classic C book (both were extremely nice). It was during a stretch
of about 3 months where I wasn't making backups, and a disk crash wiped
it out. I was too embarrassed about that to ask again, and so I never
used the quotes, and now it's too late.
It pays to keep backups of email. I very rarely need it, but when I do,
it's a life saver. Though having 20 years of it now means searching it
is a bit of a challenge :-)
Perhaps time to write a D tool for that job ;)
--
/Jacob Carlborg
