On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 02:16:09PM -0600, Tom Whiting wrote: > That's just what's been said:) > Unless you use your own code, start completely from scratch, you're > required legally to credit rom with the code they've done.. > I might add that IF a certain percentage of the code is changed( I > really do forget how much, because it's been too long since I looked > into it myself), then you MAY copyright the code yourself, HOWEVER,
Not quite: you can copyright your changes. You can't copyright the existing code. Regardless of how much you change, you didn't write it, therefore you can't copyright it. You can only copyright your own work or work you have had done for hire.
