Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 26 May 2002 13:42:51 +0100 (BST) | From | Ruth Ivimey-Cook <> | Subject | Re: [patch] New driver for Artop [Acard] controllers. |
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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.
Ruth
-- Ruth Ivimey-Cook Software engineer and technical writer.
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