From: Florian Weimer Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:15:06 GMT Subject: Re: Code reuse Message-ID: <87hbub3qr9.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> In-Reply-To: <2e24e5b90910070530p757b3651ne0f7e4a6e8bc8825@mail.gmail.com> * Sitaram Chamarty: > It would seem to me that, if you changed them significantly, and going > by the above logic, you don't need to do *anything* regarding > attribution. Note that applicable laws may impose additional restrictions, like crediting authors in the way they require. My personal approach is to include the copyright header of the file I'm quoting from, together with a comment which explains where the code came from (project, version, path).