From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22544 invoked by alias); 25 May 2006 13:55:30 -0000 Received: (qmail 22534 invoked by uid 22791); 25 May 2006 13:55:29 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.artimi.com (HELO mail.artimi.com) (217.40.213.68) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 25 May 2006 13:55:27 +0000 Received: from mail.artimi.com ([192.168.1.3]) by mail.artimi.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Thu, 25 May 2006 14:55:24 +0100 Received: from rainbow ([192.168.1.165]) by mail.artimi.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Thu, 25 May 2006 14:55:24 +0100 From: "Dave Korn" To: "'Not The Cygwin-Licensing Maiming List'" Subject: RE: Re: Handling special characters (\/:*?"<>|) gracefully Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 13:55:00 -0000 Message-ID: <000f01c68002$def1b430$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <4C89134832705D4D85A6CD2EBF38AE0F3E0A1A@PAUMAILU03.ags.agere.com> Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List X-SW-Source: 2006-q2/txt/msg00336.txt.bz2 On 25 May 2006 14:45, Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote: > The code was released as PD, so there are no copyrights > claimed. Once you get a copy, you can do whatever you > want with it. Well, I'm not 100% sure that means I can re-license it. And IIUIC I would need to actually *own* the copyright on anything that I want to place under GPL. So cgf's caution is probably correct and I should really do a clean-room implementation of my own. I think it'll be ok to use the list of functions that you suggested as the basis, however! cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today....