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Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 13:42:51 +0100 (BST)
From: Ruth Ivimey-Cook <Ruth.Ivimey-Cook@ivimey.org>
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To: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
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Subject: Re: [patch] New driver for Artop [Acard] controllers.
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On Sun, 26 May 2002, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
>On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 10:07:36PM -0700, Andre Hedrick wrote:
>> Where do you get off delete copyrights?
>> GPL permits changing it does not give you the right to steal, lie, cheat,
>> defraud, other peoples work.  However I should not expect anything of
>> honor from a person of your high morals.  I know you want to rewrite the
>> past to make it so I and other never existed, but you are pathetic.
>
>I don't delete copyrights, where applicable. However, in this case, none
>of the original code stayed, not a single line - I first wrote a spec
>based on the old driver and then wrote a new driver from scratch based
>on that spec. So, you really don't have a copyright on the new Artop
>driver, sorry.

Vojtech,

It would be a lot better if you had acknowledged the prior input of the
original writers in the source; I accept that if you write a new driver you
are entitled to claim (C) on it, but to acknowledge the source of the
specification would have been much fairer to the others whose hard work you
have used.

Ruth

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Ruth Ivimey-Cook
Software engineer and technical writer.