Re: adding and forking someone else's GPL software - what should i do?

Nevyn <[email protected]> Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:27:20 +1300
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.linux.new-zealand.general
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On 21 November 2011 09:45, Ryan McCoskrie <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 08:17:22 Robin Paulson wrote:
> >  On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 10:59:44 -0800, Daniel Pittman wrote:
> > Are there any other recommendations there you'd suggest?
> > >
> > > 1.0
> >
> >  interesting, how so? for instance, i recall libre office started
> >  straight off with version 3.2 or something similar, matching the latest
> >  open office version number
> >
>
> I should have been a bit more clear, use a release number that indicates it
> as the beginning of a new project. That's how I would do it personally but
> really it is down to Daniel's discretion.


Could this be released as a patch? It's the "rp" patch to X software. Thus
doing away with the need for too much versioning and forking....

Regards,
Nevyn
http://nevsramblings.blogspot.com/
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