Depending on license, you may also want or need to add something in your NOTICE.txt file as well. Could be handy either way as a pointer to the project whose algorithms this one is based on.
On 16 May 2017 at 09:11, Rob Tompkins <chtom...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On May 16, 2017, at 10:10 AM, Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > On 2017-05-16, Rob Tompkins wrote: > > > >> I’m currently working on an issue in the [math] codebase, and the > suggested fix is to port some python code over to Java from scipy ( > https://github.com/scipy/scipy <https://github.com/scipy/scipy>, > https://scipy.org <https://scipy.org/>, license: BSD-3-clause). Clearly I > can’t copy and paste their exact code in to our codebase as it’s python, > but clearly I’m lifting their ideas. > > > >> So, what is and isn’t allowed in this case? Do I simply go through the > exercise of porting the code over and make a reference or is there > something else that I should do? > > > > I've been doing similar things in [compress] coming from C rather than > > Python. My code is usually not a verbatim port but rather a Java rewrite > > of the ideas of the original algorithm. > > > > AFAIU a straight port would be fine as well as the license is > > compatible. You may want to keep pointers to the original code base and > > license with your code. > > > > Many thanks for that, > -Rob > > > Stefan > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > -- Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com>
