> On Jun 30, 2018, at 20:44, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > >> From: Jean-Christophe Helary >> Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2018 20:35:39 +0900 >> >> If I find a program in C (gpl3) and I adapt it to Emacs Lisp what is the situation regarding >> authorship/copyright/licence ? >> >> Please elaborate on what you mean by "adapt it to Emacs Lisp". >> >> 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). Thank you. After tweaking a few lines here and there as I've done in the past 12 months, I guess it is time to move to writing a full, even short, program. Jean-Christophe Helary ----------------------------------------------- http://mac4translators.blogspot.com @brandelune