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.