26 Jul
2009
26 Jul
'09
12:52 p.m.
laseray(a)gmail.com wrote:
On Sunday 26 July 2009 10:04:27 you wrote:
I understand your view, especially because I unchecked receiving mails,
when there was such a discussion because of Beatmachine Pro in the LMMS
dev mailing list. I called the one who used the LMMS source code and
sold "his" software a thief and liar. He always promised that he never
sold Beatmachine Pro, now the program is dead, but
"Beat Machine Pro is no longer for sale. If you are an existing user,
this site will remain here so that you can access help articles and
support."
maybe he sold some software.
I once asked a German guy who stands for the GPL questions by email that
never were answered. There's a German book I never read:
http://www.oreilly.de/german/freebooks/gplger/
"Unwirksamkeit der Klauseln Ziffer 11 und 12 GPL nach deutschem Recht
138" vague translated: "legal ineffectiveness of some terms by the
German law" but in addition in Germany we have a copyright law, that
protects some issues even without marking work with a copyright note.
By moral you are right, but by some laws you might only attain one's
ends by diplomacy. Dunno. And I'm not diplomatic too.
Ralf
laseray(a)gmail.com wrote:
More than a year of chances are more than enough. You cannot continually
give people chances forever when it is obvious they just don't want to do
the right thing.
It may not matter if that guy changes things (e.g., license) once there is a
fork. It is not as if other people cannot write code you know. The currently
available source code is starter material for that.
I wish people would think over what has already been written about this
topic before they respond.
People should not remain ever patient with those who act improperly.
At some point you just have to act, not wait on the side until someone
else gives you the okay. Imagine how much in this world would not
get done if we all waited for others to smarten up. You give people
a chance, then when they don't come through just get to it. That
is what has happened here. Tune into that facts, please.
Raymond I wanted to cooperate with people, but it was
just too difficult for them
to admit being wrong.
Hardened fronts needs to calm down and then to find a way out the tight
corner. Everybody needs a chance, otherwise he might do everything
without publishing anything and one day there will be a program nobody
really can prove used FLOSS code.