On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 07:13, Jürgen Lüters <jluet...@intranet-engineering.de> wrote: > Copyright law does protect implementations only, not ideas nor > algorithms. Implementations do manifest itself in terms of sourcecode. > As long a the sourcecode (the implementation) is different everything is > ok. The implementation is not different if you change minor topics > (variable names ) only. In this case the newer work is based on the old > implementation and considered a derived work. > The technical examination and judgement is based on sourcecode > investigations only. The person who has written the code is from minor > interest.
I have some friends that are from GNU and it does matter if the code has been changed using a previous code as reference. It is a difficult stuff to be discussed in jury but it can happen. The only safe way to avoid this is to reconstruct the code without this previous version as base. It doesn't seems as a valid option for FreeRDP case since we have based the code on a fork from RDesktop (like it or not) and thus most of basis (not the new code) is derivated work. It seems that the only way to solve this is Cendio and their people allowing us to change license. Start from scratch seems stupid for me. -- Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems E-mail: ota...@ossystems.com.br http://www.ossystems.com.br Mobile: +55 53 9981-7854 http://projetos.ossystems.com.br ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced content authoring tool. Experience the power of Track Changes, Inline Image Editing and ensure content is compliant with Accessibility Checking. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ephox-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Freerdp-devel mailing list Freerdp-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freerdp-devel
