On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 02:19:09PM -0500, Sam Hart wrote: > It actually was not my decision to GPLv2 it. I honestly didn't care what > license it was released under. GPLv2 was just what the original base as > written by Branden Robinson was copyrighted under. > > > 1) Identical command-line options: > > > 2) Placing of suite scripts inside of a "scripts/*" directory: > > > 3) Making common functions available to suite scripts: > > that you did seem to copy quite a bit from debootstrap anyway. > No, I did not. Maintaining an identical interface and file layout is not > copying code. There are other things that are copyrightable besides code -- in particular, usage/error messages (depending on their length and number) are likely to be covered by copyright, and it's pretty implausible that those would be the same between debootstrap and rpmstrap *without* direct copying. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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