Re: Question about GPL issue.

2006-04-06 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Steven W. Orr writes: I am sure that I read something somewhere (though I could be wrong) where RMS said that he happily took other people's code and essentially changed the names of the variables and slapped a GPL at the beginning of the file. I would like to do the opposite. (I can't go

Re: Question about GPL issue.

2006-04-06 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 01:44:43PM -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote: I do pretty well here, so I thought I'd go to the well one more time. I am sure that I read something somewhere (though I could be wrong) where RMS said that he happily took other people's code and essentially changed the names

Re: Question about GPL issue.

2006-04-06 Thread Bruce Dawson
Jeff Kinz wrote: On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 01:44:43PM -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote: I do pretty well here, so I thought I'd go to the well one more time. I am sure that I read something somewhere (though I could be wrong) where RMS said that he happily took other people's code and essentially

Re: Question about GPL issue.

2006-04-06 Thread Jason Stephenson
Bruce Dawson wrote: One thing that might help would be clean rooming it... have *someone I've done the above in a couple of projects. Mostly by reading the manpage and the usage report and doing the code based on that, without looking at the source code of the original program. Actually,

Re: Question about GPL issue.

2006-04-06 Thread Jeffrey Creem
Steven W. Orr wrote: I do pretty well here, so I thought I'd go to the well one more time. I am sure that I read something somewhere (though I could be wrong) where RMS said that he happily took other people's code and essentially changed the names of the variables and slapped a GPL at the