Re: licence and authorship question

[Jean-Christophe Helary <brandelune@gmail.com>]

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> On Jul 1, 2018, at 8:15, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:
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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.
> 
> When you translate a program into another language, that is a kind of
> modification.  The translation is covered by the copyright on the
> original program.  This applies to machine-translation and also to
> hand-translation.
> 
> If the original program carries a free license, that license gives
> permission to translate it.  How you can use and license the
> translated program is determined by that license.  If it is the GNU
> GPL, the translated program must be covered by the same versions of
> the GNU GPL.
> 
> 
> If, however, what you mean by "rewrite" is to write a new program from
> scratch that does the same job, without translating the code itself,
> that is not a modification of the original program.

Thank you for the clear explanation.

Jean-Christophe Helary
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