Licensing?
Greg Ewing
greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Feb 2 19:11:23 EST 2023
On 3/02/23 6:38 am, Jon Ribbens wrote:
> If you change someone else's code then you have created a derived
> work, which requires permission from both the original author and you
> to copy. (Unless you change it so much that nothing remains of the
> original author's code, of course.)
"Nothing" is probably a bit extreme; somewhere between "exactly the
same" and "completely different" there will be a borderline case,
although exactly where the border lies would require a court case
to determine.
When in doubt, the sensible and courteous thing would be to include
the original copyright notice as requested, maybe with a "based on
work by..." attribution.
--
Greg
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