From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Subject: Re: GPL and Copying Code
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2001 09:15:51 +0200
Date: 2001-10-20T09:15:51+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zo6mn5nc.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: tt17ea9bml9sf6@corp.supernews.com
"David Botton" <David@Botton.com> writes:
> Let's say that I like a particular package with some algorithm and its is
> under the GPL or GMGPL, would I be able to copy that piece of code from that
> package in to a new package (along with other new code and perhaps even
> modifying the original code) under the same lic, but different package name?
As long as you do not misrepresent the author of the source code, I
don't think this is a problem. In some way, it happens all the time.
Nevertheless, it's polite to ask first. Some people might be a bit
annoyed when they receive bug reports for packages they think they
have never written. ;-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-20 7:15 UTC|newest]
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2001-10-19 21:40 GPL and Copying Code David Botton
2001-10-20 7:15 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2001-10-20 11:00 ` Robert Dewar
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