Re: [ros-dev] [ros-diffs] [jimtabor] 37099: Implement GetFontUnicodeRanges, port from wine. Tested with wine gdi32 font crosstests.

[James Tabor]

Hi!

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:20 AM, Steven Edwards
<sedwards(a)bordeauxgroup.com> wrote:
>   Hello,
>
>  On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 9:33 AM,  <jimtabor(a)svn.reactos.org> wrote:
> >   URL:
> > http://svn.reactos.org/svn/reactos?rev=37099&view=rev
> >  Log:
> >  Implement GetFontUnicodeRanges, port from wine. Tested with wine gdi32 font crosstests.
>  If your using enough of the original implementation to credit Wine
>  then to me that means someone else at least partly own copyright to
>  these functions. Could you please use git blame or git web and see who
>  the author was of the original implementation from Wine and credit
>  them appropriately in the header? From time to time when someone says
>  'foo from wine' I get pinged from wine developers who's code is
>  appropriated and they ask for proper attribution. If we don't do it
>  right the first time, then at some point another audit of each commit
>  from SVN will have to happen and we will have to go back and add those
>  copyright holders to the files license header.
>
>  --
>  Steven Edwards 
I guess the operative word is "Port" that means rewrite of
the
original code. Any moron can go back and compare the code and see
where it came from. I did add a comment that it was a port from wine.
With the next cycle in the mix I will commit the proper header for the
file.

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Thanks,
James