Bug#500697: mootools for debian
Hi Valerio,
do you allow me to publish this email in the debian/copyright file?
Cheers,
On Sat, 2009-03-14 at 06:28 +0100, Valerio Proietti wrote:
> Hey,
>
> We actually never "borrow" a single line of code from anywhere. What
> we "borrow" is the technique to make some pretty obscure thing work
> cross-browser-ly. For Instance, the element dimensions. From the code
> of qoodooxo I just understood what's the technique to find the offset
> parent of an element, and I implemented my own code to do that. I
> always put the notice in the header of the file for respect of the
> technique discovery. But there isnt a single line of code that is
> actually copied and pasted from other projects. Also, as said, every
> time I do that its reported in the file header, along with the project
> homepage and license, so those comments you find in the headers are
> really all there is that didnt come out directly out of our brains.
>
>
> Valerio Proietti
> kamicane@gmail.com
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> On Mar 13, 2009, at 6:37 PM, Marcelo Jorge Vieira (metal) wrote:
>
> > hi!
> >
> > On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 14:57 +0100, Valerio Proietti wrote:
> >> Hi Marcelo,
> >>
> >> We always write it in the header of the file when we "borrow" code,
> >> so
> >> that should definitely be it :)
> >
> > "Borrowing" code requires permission/license from the author. Could
> > you
> > please refer to the original code that you "borrowed" code from so we
> > can give the proper credits, and the right information in a
> > copyright/license file and distribute mootools in Debian?
> >
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > --
> > Marcelo Jorge Vieira
> > xmpp://metal@jabber-br.org
> > http://metaldot.alucinados.com
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