On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Wolfram Sang wrote: >> task. There doesn't appear to be anything in this code that would be >> patent encumbered, but the code itself certainly falls under >> Hidenori's copyright which he has effectively revoked permission to >> use. > > Strictly speaking, this is not possible. Although IANAL, this code is LGPL, > so he can't revoke permission for this version of the code. He can ask to > not use it, and this wish can be granted. You still should be allowed to > pick it up. Next question is then, if a modified version will be picked up > (still respecting the author's wish)? Or how much modifications are needed? > Geez, such things are never trivial :( >
Well, I put the LGPL header on the code. I thought I had that right since the code was posted to wine-patches Anyhow, the legal side isn't really relevant. The question is what Alexandre will accept as far as it goes. The current code is certainly copyright by Hienori, and since I couldn't contact him, I must assume he doesn't want any of it in Wine. Thus my assumption is that I need to rewrite the entire thing, if we want to obey his wishes (which I do). However, my hope was that I could use the knowledge I gained from his implementation to do it myself. As I'm already biased by that knowledge, if that won't be allowed, then I can't do the work at all.
