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Re: licence and authorship question
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: licence and authorship question |
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Sat, 30 Jun 2018 14:44:25 +0300 |
> From: Jean-Christophe Helary <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2018 20:35:39 +0900
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> If I find a program in C (gpl3) and I adapt it to Emacs Lisp what is the
> situation regarding
> authorship/copyright/licence ?
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> Please elaborate on what you mean by "adapt it to Emacs Lisp".
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> It is a single file c source game that you can run from the command line and
> I would like to rewrite it in elisp.
IANAL, but AFAIK rewriting in a completely different programming
language doesn't qualify as "copying", so for all practical purposes
the Lisp code will be yours and yours alone (although referring to the
C implementation as the source of the general idea and the design
would be a Good Thing).