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guidelines. Unfortunately I don't know much about copyright issues either,
> -----Mensaje original-----
> De:
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> Dreyer
> Enviado el: 06 January 2001 06:24
> Para: Gilbert Peffer
> Asunto: Re: guideline copyright
>
>
> Hi Gilbert,
>
> Thanks for your interest in the coding guideline project.
>
> I am sure you guys have more experience than me regarding
> copyrights and open source and the various issues in that
> respect, and I whould be grateful for any advices you could
> give me regarding the different options I/you have and what
> this will mean for me, my guide, you and your version of the
> guide now and in the future.
>
> As you might have noticed there is also a related "coding
> practice" guideline which I have great belief in, but that
> I unfortunately not have had the time to complete. It whould
> have been great to have a joint project started to work on
> that guide, but as it is to some degree build on the advices
> of Scott Meyers, I am sure there could be some copyright twist
> there as well?
>
> Regards,
>
> Jacob Dreyer
> General Manager
> Geotechnical Software Services
> Stavanger - Norway
>
>
>
> Gilbert Peffer wrote:
> >
> > Hi there,
> >
> > We have been reading your C++ Programming Style Guidelines with great
> > interest and would like to use them in an open-source project
> as our base
> > guidelines for the C++ part of that project.
> >
> > However, some of the software developers would want to add
> rules or alter a
> > few of the rules. We were thinking of reproducing your
> guidelines and adapt
> > them to our needs, but this obviously requires your permission
> because of
> > the copyright status. Could you please let me know if you were
> prepared to
> > grant us this permission, and under what conditions.
> >
> > The open source project is called QuantLib and is hosted by SourceForge,
> > more details of which you can find at its home page
> >
http://sourceforge.net/projects/quantlib/.
> >
> > Best regards
> >
> > The QuantLib Development Team
>