Irihapeti
November 9th, 2010, 03:53 AM
I found a program on SourceForge that looked useful to me. The project hasn't been touched for over 5 years. I made a minor modification to one of the source files to suit my needs - about a dozen lines of code in all.
Now a few of my friends/colleagues are interested in it, and I'm wanting to know how to do the right thing about distributing it.
According to the SourceForge project page, the project is licensed under the LGPL. However, when I look at the source files, there's absolutely nothing to indicate this. They are just marked Copyright to the original author, and some stuff about "absolutely no warranty" etc.
I've read through the GPL documentation, but the emphasis is on how to deal with original code, or maybe with patches if you are working through CVS/SVN or whatever. I'm wanting to know if there are instructions about how you should deal with copyright and so forth when making minor changes to existing code that's on my computer.
Can anyone point me to some examples of proper code markup in these circumstances?
(I've done the Google thing and I'm just going around in circles.:confused: )
Now a few of my friends/colleagues are interested in it, and I'm wanting to know how to do the right thing about distributing it.
According to the SourceForge project page, the project is licensed under the LGPL. However, when I look at the source files, there's absolutely nothing to indicate this. They are just marked Copyright to the original author, and some stuff about "absolutely no warranty" etc.
I've read through the GPL documentation, but the emphasis is on how to deal with original code, or maybe with patches if you are working through CVS/SVN or whatever. I'm wanting to know if there are instructions about how you should deal with copyright and so forth when making minor changes to existing code that's on my computer.
Can anyone point me to some examples of proper code markup in these circumstances?
(I've done the Google thing and I'm just going around in circles.:confused: )