Dimitry, I know it's stupid, but the law isn't always wise. Changing variable names and any other subtle changes you can make should be sufficient, as well as putting in a comment that it was derived from whomever's code. Then no one can claim you didn't give proper attribution. I'm not a lawyer, but I do know that copyright doesn't apply when the code can't really be written any other way. That was discussed during the SCO vs. IBM lawsuit. If you reference the article, too, it will be clear to anyone who is nitpicking, that the author meant for you to learn from and apply the techniques he discussed and that the copyright is primarily meant to keep someone from using the article.
The only other thing I can think of, which is probably overkill, is writing the author and getting explicit permission. In this case, I really don't think that's necessary. You'd think there would be some place on the web where you could get good legal advice about this kind of stuff when you are an open source project. I'd kind of be surprised if there isn't one. You could try writing PJ at groklaw and asking her if there is such a website. She's a paralegal that has been covering open source legal issues since the SCO vs. IBM lawsuit started years ago. Ray Dimitry Polivaev wrote: > Ray, > > have you looked into the class? I do not know how to rewrite a class > consisting of only one method with five lines of code and just > implementing serialization for singleton as described everywhere e.g. > > http://java.sun.com/developer/JDCTechTips/2006/tt0113.html > > Actually we do not have a plan to serialize the singleton, and the class > could be completely removed, but what is about the copyright? > > Dimitry > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > Freemind-developer mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freemind-developer > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Freemind-developer mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freemind-developer
