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From: daveb@rtech.rtech.com (Dave Brower)
Newsgroups: alt.sources,comp.sources.d
Subject: CRISP: tacky use of my splay tree code.
Message-ID: <2706@rtech.rtech.com>
Date: 9 Mar 89 02:46:39 GMT
Reply-To: daveb@rtech.com (Dave Brower)
Organization: Relational Technology Inc, Alameda CA
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I was motivated enough to unpack CRISP, and very curious when it
included a directory "splay".  I'd tried to encourage the use of splay
trees by posting a library in comp.sources.unix last year.  The code in
CRISP is obviously derived from my library, but contains not a whit of
credit from me or acknowledgement of the source.

Now, I didn't put in an explicit copyright, mostly because I borrowed
the code in Pascal from Doug Jones in the first place.  But my
understanding is that UK copyright (really Berne convention) is implicit
unless the author explicitly denies it.  So it is really galling to see
a copyright on this editor that uses my code without permission or
acknowledgement.

Phthhhhpt!!! to you Mr Fox.  It is tacky at best to rip code off and
imply that it is yours.  How much else of CRISP did you steal?

-dB

PS, a version of my library with a bug fix to spdeq should be in the
hopper of comp.sources.unix.  I'll mail copies to interested individuals
in the meantime.
-- 
"If it was easy, we'd hire someone cheaper than you to do it."
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