Re: licence and authorship question

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

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> On Jun 30, 2018, at 20:44, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
>> 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).

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
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