OpenEuphoria

Re: copywrite win32lib.ew ??

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> Nov 20, 2001
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Bernie Ryan writes:
> Did I miss something or is David's Cuny win32lib copyright
> now own by Thomas C. Janes and placed by Mr. Janes under the GNU
> public license. 

One file in Tom Janes' Visual Euphoria program
consists of an amalgamation of the files in euphoria\include 
plus some version of Win32Lib, plus a few changes of his own. 
He put a GNU-style copyright notice at the top of all files 
because he wants to encourage others to continue his work.
He describes what he did in his readme file, and he
mentions David Cuny. Perhaps he should have
mentioned David Cuny in the actual source files as well.
If David Cuny feels his copyright has been infringed in
any way, I will gladly remove Mr. Janes contribution.

> Rob would you please ask Mr. Janes to cease using
> the name win32api.ew for this libray or remove his  Visual euphoria
> program langauge from the archive.

I don't think you can copyright an 8.3 file name,
especially one with an obvious name like Win32API.ew
I don't think many people will confuse Tom's file with yours.

> PS: Anyone using David's the win32lib library will now have to
> include the GPL license in it.   

No they won't. 
What about the 99% who have never even seen Tom Janes' file?
Also, Tom can only copyright *his* amalgamated file, not David's
original, or the work of Derek Parnell and others.

Regards,
   Rob Craig
   Rapid Deployment Software
   http://www.RapidEuphoria.com