Specifically because this is a pretty straightforward idea to implement, it's likely that any version I type in is going to look substantially similar to what the original author typed in. Is the fact that I typed it with reference to the idea, instead of actually bitwise copying it from an implementation, enough to satisfy copyright? Not a rhetorical question ... I really don't know. Regardless, in the credit where credit is due department, I'll ask the original author about putting the original code (before he accepted other contributions) in the public domain.
On 12/19/07, Paul J. Lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 19, 2007, at 8:57 AM, Jerome Louvel wrote: > > > However, there appear to be three authors/contributors, so we would > > need to get the agreement and JCA of all of them which complicates > > things a bit. > > Given the algorithm description in English, just write the code > yourself from scratch and the copyright issue becomes moot. This > algorithm isn't exactly rocket science. > > - Paul >
