Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Kamil Dudka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> There was something like "Copyright (C) 1995 Ian Jackson" in original file, >> but also "... under terms of GNU General Public License..." I am not lawyer >> and don't understand such details :-) > > So it's not copyrighted by the FSF? Well, then the best thing > to do, IMO, is to provide a clean room reimplementation of this > function under FSF copyright.
Ian Jackson is the author and maintainer of other GNU software (GNU adns), so he might be willing to assign copyright to that function to the FSF. Have you asked him? -- Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.org