Project Highlight: The PowerNex Kernel

Wild via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Fri Jun 24 12:50:39 PDT 2016


On Friday, 24 June 2016 at 17:09:28 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> On Friday, 24 June 2016 at 15:27:14 UTC, Wild wrote:
>> Ya, I did borrow some code, mostly because my 64-bit code 
>> didn't play nice in
>> the beginning. But I think I have rewritten all the code that 
>> I borrowed from
>> you.
>
> Be careful with that. A rewrite may still be considered a 
> translation, and the original author retains copyright of your 
> rewrite and thus your code may have to obey the original 
> license. A translation does not have to be literal for the 
> copyright-ownership to carry over.

I didn't know that, thanks.
But I don't think this case would fall under a translation,
but I'm no lawyer so I can't be 100% sure.


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