27 Jul
2009
27 Jul
'09
4:05 p.m.
On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 19:10 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
Another thing that wasn't said / doesn't follow. Cut it out, please.
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Thorsten Wilms
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Hi Bob :)
Robert Keller wrote:
That's not at all what he said.
Ralf: seeing your obvious problems with (English) reading comprehension
- not for the first time - I must say the best you could do is to keep
out of this.
However, I don't feel that I
am obligated to accept every suggestion that someone makes about
software that is my own.
You used GPL stuff without accepting the GPL? Less people understand the
GPL completely, but c'mon you're an academic. Maybe you are obligated by
ethics to share your own software with other people who make it possible
for you by their own, but libre and open sourced software or even people
that never did anything for you. > I have contacted sourceForge
> about his posting of sources relating to the project, and they
> suggested filing a copyright infringement (the project is copyright by
> me and Harvey Mudd College).
Mr. Keller: Either the code is GPL and redistribution is allowed, or it
isn't GPL and therefore would break the GPL license of another project,
if I got that part of this thread right.
You don't want that Raymond does forge his own
version of Impro-Visor?
Why not? I can't see any damage by doing this.
Possible reasons:
- duplication/waste of effort
- making things harder for users and distributors, having to look into
the differences and implications
- emotional attachment due to long and hard work
- not wanting to see credit given to the forker standing on _his_
shoulders
Those who don't write and release code should be very careful when
discussing such issue with those who do.
a lot of the
thinking that went into the project is
that of me and my students.
And also by some GPL coders.
You won't share your knowledge?