From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,baa115c63dffdaae X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-19 23:54:45 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!151.189.0.75!newsfeed.germany.net!newsfeed2.easynews.net!easynews.net!news.cid.net!news.enyo.de!news1.enyo.de!not-for-mail From: Florian Weimer Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GPL and Copying Code Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2001 09:15:51 +0200 Organization: Enyo's not your organization Message-ID: <87zo6mn5nc.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14956 Date: 2001-10-20T09:15:51+02:00 List-Id: "David Botton" 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. ;-)