Is this theory right?

[BobKare]

Hello again!
I just got a simple question this time:

I got this theory which tells me that if I'd taken the fCraft source, and wanted to change the software's name, all (cough) I'd need to do is renaming EVERY file, EVERY namespace, namespace decleration, classes and all other lines in the entire source which contains the word "fCraft", and change the name to something else.
This excudes, of course, the license and eventual copyright notes.

This is not something I'm planning to do, since it's obviously days of work, but I just wanted to know if this theory is true?

So, the simple question: Is it?

~BobKare

[Bloody_Llama]

http://www.fcraft.net/wiki/Licensing

[BobKare]

Code: Select all

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

I know the license, and I can't understand how this breaks it.
I'm renaming the files.

If I've skipped something, please tell me what.

[Hellenion]

This doesn't break it at all, you can rename fCraft and claim it as your own all you want. If you're smart you also let your IDE or some other routine solve the renaming for you, just replace all instances of "fCraft" with your new name, and all instances of "fragmer" with "BobKare". Nopony's going to sue you.

But why would you?

[BobKare]

Theory...
I will try the IDE thing, though.
I'm just curious

[Hellenion]

Curious about your ability to replace words? Never seen that one before.

[BobKare]

Haha...
Maybe I'm just a curious person? ^^

[BobKare]

Renamed all 'fCraft' namespaces and declerations and other places, but when I build the main project file, it won't load fCraftGUI.csproj and fCraft.csproj.
The files are renamed to another name, but the error I get contains the original names.
Ps: I did not rename files and folders under obj's and bin's.

[boblol0909]

Renamed all 'fCraft' namespaces and declerations and other places, but when I build the main project file, it won't load fCraftGUI.csproj and fCraft.csproj.
The files are renamed to another name, but the error I get contains the original names.
Ps: I did not rename files and folders under obj's and bin's.

What's the point?

[BobKare]

Is no one reading the entire point of the topic before replying?

[Intertoothh]

Maybe your looking for:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_refactoring ?

[Jonty800]

My guide:
1. Make sure you supply a copy of the licence with the software
2. Bring up the replace tool, type "fCraft" to replace with "YourSoftwareName" and keep pressing find next. If you see namespaces, don't change them, really, all you want to do is change string values that contain the word 'fCraft'.
Be careful or half your software won't work.