Thanks for that i am no legalese speaker so yeah ;). Its only really the alloc_nr but its renamed is nearly the same the other really isnt the same only just 2 statements with different identifiers remain. Thanks anyways git-core is nice :) --Phil 2009/10/7 Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@xxxxxxxxx>: > On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 12:48 AM, Philip Herron > <herron.philip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> I am not sure if this is the right place to ask this question, but >> I've been working on a personal project a programming language >> interpreter for some time now, but i took 2 code snippets from >> git-core namely: > > [snip] > >> I've changed it a good bit (probably doesn't resemble much of what it >> was) to fit in with the way my stuff works but is there anything i >> need to like put in my source code to say hey this is based of >> git-core, so far is just a comment to say 'based of git-core hash.c'. >> Its an open source (GPL) program but i haven't released or made much >> noise about it yet because i want to work on it more myself. > > In general, the GPL's main requirement is that whoever gets the binary > should also get the code (I'm over simplifying but that's basically > it). It actually doesn't say much about giving credit, except (from > <HEAD:COPYING>): > > "If the software is modified by someone else and passed on, we want > its recipients to know that what they have is not the original, so > that any problems introduced by others will not reflect on the > original authors' reputations" > > and > > "a) You must cause the modified files to carry prominent notices > stating that you changed the files and the date of any change." > > That's basically it... > > It would seem to me that, if you changed them significantly, and going > by the above logic, you don't need to do *anything* regarding > attribution. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html