patacongo edited a comment on pull request #2326: URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-nuttx/pull/2326#issuecomment-731329650
This code seems to derive from the implementation by Gregory Pietsch. That is public domain and not GPL: https://users.cs.cf.ac.uk/KurtevaA/MSCProject/code/speak.js-master/src/getopt.h COPYRIGHT NOTICE AND DISCLAIMER: Copyright (C) 1997 Gregory Pietsch This file and the accompanying getopt.c implementation file are hereby placed in the public domain without restrictions. **_Just give the author credit, don't claim you wrote it or prevent anyone else from using it._** Gregory Pietsch's current e-mail address: gpiet...@comcast.net I personally do not know if we can take copyrighted, public doman and claim that the ASF has the copyright. I think that is a very bad practice. At the very least is in unethical to claim to wrote and the you own code the you derive from another person's effort @justinmclean How should we handle this? ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org
