From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20221 invoked by alias); 25 May 2006 14:35:38 -0000 Received: (qmail 20182 invoked by uid 22791); 25 May 2006 14:35:35 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from pool-71-248-179-19.bstnma.fios.verizon.net (HELO cgf.cx) (71.248.179.19) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 25 May 2006 14:34:51 +0000 Received: by cgf.cx (Postfix, from userid 201) id 82E1013C01F; Thu, 25 May 2006 10:34:49 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 14:35:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List Subject: Re: Re: Handling special characters (\/:*?"<>|) gracefully Message-ID: <20060525143449.GC12123@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List References: <4C89134832705D4D85A6CD2EBF38AE0F3E0A1A@PAUMAILU03.ags.agere.com> <000f01c68002$def1b430$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000f01c68002$def1b430$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 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/msg00338.txt.bz2 On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 02:55:24PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >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! FWIW, Red Hat's legal department (who no longer respond to my email) once told me that incorporating public domain stuff into Cygwin was ok as long as it was very clear that there was no claim on the code. Unfortunately, proving that a company doesn't claim ownership is usually roughly equivalent to having them fill out the idious cygwin assignment so, AFAICT, this isn't usually all that useful an option to pursue. cgf