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Re: Avoid global pointers in dae
From: |
Carlo De Falco |
Subject: |
Re: Avoid global pointers in dae |
Date: |
Sun, 14 Aug 2016 00:14:57 +0000 |
On 14 Aug 2016, at 02:11, Carlo de Falco <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On 14 Aug 2016, at 01:17, Carnë Draug <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> On 13 August 2016 at 06:30, Francesco Faccio
>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> [...]
>>> Since I don't own copiright, I would like to know if it's ok to change the
>>> interface of that base class.
>>>
>>
>> The ability to change the code is one of the main points behind GPL.
>> So yes, you can change the source.
>>
>> Just beware that if the interface is public you should try to keep
>> backwards compatibility. I grepped all of the Octave Forge for DAEFunc
>> and all of its subclasses [1] but couldn't find it being used so you
>> should be fine.
>>
>> Carnë
>>
>> [1] http://octave.org/doxygen/4.1/d9/d83/classDAEFunc.html
>
> Francesco,
>
> As Carnë's answer shows, your question is ill posed and leads to
> misunderstandings:
>
> of course you can change the source, the GPL license grants you this right,
> the real question would be whether that change would be accepted by Octave
> developers in the main repository or not.
To make this more clear, who holds copyright is pointless and referring to that
in your question is distracting.
The question is a technical question about the class design and functionality,
not
a legal question about licenses and copyright.
> c.
- Avoid global pointers in dae, Francesco Faccio, 2016/08/13
- Re: Avoid global pointers in dae, Carnë Draug, 2016/08/13
- Re: Avoid global pointers in dae, Carlo De Falco, 2016/08/13
- Re: Avoid global pointers in dae,
Carlo De Falco <=
- Re: Avoid global pointers in dae, Francesco Faccio, 2016/08/15
- Re: Avoid global pointers in dae, Carlo De Falco, 2016/08/15
- Re: Avoid global pointers in dae, Francesco Faccio, 2016/08/15
- Re: Avoid global pointers in dae, Carnë Draug, 2016/08/15
- Re: Avoid global pointers in dae, Carlo De Falco, 2016/08/15
- Re: Avoid global pointers in dae, Francesco Faccio, 2016/08/15
- Re: Avoid global pointers in dae, Carlo De Falco, 2016/08/15
- Re: Avoid global pointers in dae, Francesco Faccio, 2016/08/15
- Re: Avoid global pointers in dae, Carlo De Falco, 2016/08/15
- Re: Avoid global pointers in dae, Francesco Faccio, 2016/08/15