[LAD] Fwd: Fw: Re: At the hands of Professor Keller and Raymond

Patrick Shirkey pshirkey at boosthardware.com
Sun Aug 2 19:49:52 UTC 2009


> On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Patrick Shirkey 
> <pshirkey at boosthardware.com <mailto:pshirkey at boosthardware.com>> wrote:
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>
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>     This whole problem could have been solved if you had originally
>     provided Ray with access to the source when he asked for it, but
>     in essence you should be making your code available from the start
>     at a public location.
>
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> I did make the code available when he asked for it, as I've already 
> stated. My understanding of the GPL is that it is not essential to 
> post the code publicly, as long as it is made available on request. I 
> certainly did that.
>


Sorry, I missed this previous statement. In this case then I don't see 
how you have violated the terms of the GPL. If you provided the code 
when requested that should have been enough.

I read in Ray's earlier posts on the issue that he had not received any 
code.


> As far as I can tell, no parties in this group are damaged as a result 
> of our efforts to provide the fruits of our labors. If there are 
> developers who think they were damaged, they should write to me and 
> state the case, then we can try to resolve it. However, I must 
> speculate that this is very unlikely; we treat our developers as 
> colleagues, not as adversaries.
>


Certainly your own party has been damaged due to the controversy that 
has been stirred. However I don't see it as a permanent problem as it 
seems that Ray has made his point and you have come to the party 
and clarified the issue, even going so far as to publically release your 
latest version of the code on Source Forge, IIUC.



Warmest regards.


Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd

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