Simon Armstrong wrote:
> I don't know where netscape or the listed contributors to
> the DToA.java source found in rhino/org/mozilla/javascript/
> get off excluding the original authors copyright notice
> as found in dtoa.c which reads:
<snip>

>  ***************************************************************/
> 
> Does this mean the listed contributors Waldemar Horwat, Roger Lawrence
> consider their
> work original???

Quite possibly. At a quick glance, dtoa.java has very little resemblance 
to dtoa.c as shown here: http://www.netlib.no/netlib/fp/dtoa.c . If I'm 
wrong about this, please say where the resemblances are (other than the 
fact that they do the same thing, which is no indication.)

As far as I can see, dtoa.c was based on the work in the following 
paper: http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/doc/90/4-10.ps.gz . Perhaps 
dtoa.java is based on the same work.

Gerv



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