On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 04:09:38PM -0400, Jacques Fortier wrote: > > I'm going to packaging gtkpool for Debian, and I was wondering about this > > part of the gtkpool README file: > > > > The code for this game is based on code from > > _Java(tm) Game Programming for Dummies(R)_ by > > Wayne Holder and Doug Bell, (I know, I know, > > but it was the only book the library had on > > game programming, so give me a break, OK? :) ) > > > > All the modifications to that code were > > performed by Jacques Fortier (that's me). > > > > If those two people wrote the code that you modified, they have copyright on > > it. What is the license of their code? There is no evidence that it is GPL. > > I got the book out of the library a while ago, so I don't remember much > about the license. I believe that they allowed you to use their code, but > I'm not sure what restrictions, if any, they imposed. I'm usually pretty > honest about such things, so I suspect what I was doing was allowed under > the terms of their license. That was three years ago though, so I'm not > really sure anymore. > > What I can tell you for sure is that no original code remains in the game. > Although the general structure and a few algorithms are based on their > code, all the C++ code was written by myself. I have placed all of my code > under the GPL.
Ah, hmm. I guess that's fine then, but I suppose someone with more knowledge of the law will comment (added CC:). -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nullification
