29 Jan
2011
29 Jan
'11
9:14 p.m.
On January 29, 2011 01:38:58 pm you wrote:
On 29 January 2011 18:22, Raymond Martin
<laseray(a)gmail.com> wrote:
It won't hurt, but is not required in any way, shape, or form. And that is
what people on this list are making a fuss about. They acting like it is
absolutely required. That just shows ignorance of what FOSS is and that they
cannot read licenses properly.
On January 29, 2011 12:54:22 pm Alexandre
Prokoudine wrote:
Just because the licenses don't mention being nice, acting with little
courtesy when it comes to using the code written by others won't hurt.
Otherwise I agree with you. On 1/29/11, Raymond Martin wrote:
Absolutely wrong. It is just a fact that you do not owe anything and are
not required to do anything besides adhere to the license. It is just a
waste of time to bother going through trying to be nice when so many
people (like you perhaps) react the wrong way. Just do what you want
with the software and forget all that childish crap.
...
FOSS is everywhere by people acting like me. Not every company or
developer that uses FOSS goes out of there way to thank the originators.
They don't have to. Yet at some point they contribute their work that
may be built on previous work. That is the thanks. So get a clue now and
try to think beyond your ego. I have forked other projects before and tried to
cooperate, follow
licenses, only to have those projects act very territorial and not in
the proper spirit of FOSS.
Just fork anyway you like. It is best not to even bother letting the
other project know what you are doing, it is not their business since
they have freely chosen to go the FOSS way. Any complaining after the
fact is just childish and stupid.
What you are saying boils down to "people had been dicks on me, so
I'll be a dick on everybody else in return". Talk about childish :)