Re: cvs: php-benchmarks / deltablue.php

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Derick Rethans <derick@php.net> wrote: > On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Ólafur Waage wrote: > >> Hmm, >> >> I didn't know about the no GPL. I was instructed to keep the original >> comments to the files. I am converting V8 JS tests from JavaScript to PHP, I This was my fault. I asked Olafur to keep the licensing information intact, as I did not know the correct procedure. >> don't think I am allowed to change the license even if its a conversion >> though. > > If you're converting from javascript to another language (PHP) there is > no way copyright can be claimed on the code. Which means you have the > copyright and you can decide on the license. AFAIk, that;s how I > understand it, but IANAL. I would like this to be correct, but I'm not sure if it is. I looked at the lineage of the file in question. It comes (I belive) from a smalltalk benchmark at the University of Washington (http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/constraints/deltablue/) which was made available without any copyright notices. The V8 team seems to have made reasonably large modifications, whereas we are simply doing a transliteration. I think the best way forward is to contact the V8 team, and ask them. I will try to do this today. If they feel that our derivative must be GPL, we can look at our options then. I hope it will be OK to leave the code in the repository as-is, until I hear back? Thanks, Paul -- Paul Biggar paul.biggar@gmail.com