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On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 01:42:51PM +0100, Ruth Ivimey-Cook wrote: > On Sun, 26 May 2002, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > >On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 10:07:36PM -0700, Andre Hedrick wrote: > >> Where do you get off delete copyrights? > >> GPL permits changing it does not give you the right to steal, lie, cheat, > >> defraud, other peoples work. However I should not expect anything of > >> honor from a person of your high morals. I know you want to rewrite the > >> past to make it so I and other never existed, but you are pathetic. > > > >I don't delete copyrights, where applicable. However, in this case, none > >of the original code stayed, not a single line - I first wrote a spec > >based on the old driver and then wrote a new driver from scratch based > >on that spec. So, you really don't have a copyright on the new Artop > >driver, sorry. > > Vojtech, > > It would be a lot better if you had acknowledged the prior input of the > original writers in the source; I accept that if you write a new driver you > are entitled to claim (C) on it, but to acknowledge the source of the > specification would have been much fairer to the others whose hard work you > have used. Yes, I agree. That's why there is: * Based on the work of: * Andre Hedrick in the new driver. -- Vojtech Pavlik SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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