From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Jean-Christophe Helary <brandelune@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: licence and authorship question
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2018 14:44:25 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83a7rcmrc6.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1956C0EF-586D-44B4-BE5A-7DFF35385666@gmail.com> (message from Jean-Christophe Helary on Sat, 30 Jun 2018 20:35:39 +0900)
> From: Jean-Christophe Helary <brandelune@gmail.com>
> 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).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-30 11:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-30 8:57 licence and authorship question Jean-Christophe Helary
2018-06-30 11:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-30 11:35 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2018-06-30 11:44 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2018-06-30 12:04 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2018-06-30 23:15 ` Richard Stallman
2018-07-01 0:52 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
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