Author: Mridul Muralidharan
Date: 15:38:35 07/22/05
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On July 22, 2005 at 17:51:46, Thomas Gaksch wrote: >On July 22, 2005 at 17:12:11, Jonas Cohonas wrote: > >>>that´s a long time ago. and of course you are right that this was absolutely >>>wrong from me. i apologized me for that many times. >>>but at the moment we are discussing what is the best and correct way to send >>>beta versions to tester. >>>i am not able to please everybody. and it seems that you can´t forgive. >>>after my wrong behaviour i tried to do everything correct. but the problem is, >>>that it is only a hobby for me and some people take that hobby to seriously. >>>for those people everything i do is wrong. fabien is NOT one of this people but >>>there are a lot others. >>>but don´t panic. if there are much more people like you i will stop working on >>>toga based on fruit because a hobby should make fun and i have no fun if i >>>always read threads like this. >>>at the moment there is a little bit action in the computer chess scene. and i >>>think toga was one of the actors which made this hobby not so boring. >>> >>>thomas >> >>Why don't you just publish the code ? >> >>Why do you keep displaying behaviour that suggests you are not willing to fully >>credit the programmer of which work you have tweaked and added a few lines of >>code, which you call Toga and treat like a private project. >> As a sign of respect you should publish each version that you tweak and send to >>people for testing, i mean if you a fully prepared to credit the true author, >>why haven't you already done this?. > >i will publish the code if the new version plays good chess. toga based on fruit >will never be private. >but it makes no sense to publish beta code. if i would do that i would have to >publish every week a new source code. and i also have no own homepage. so i >would have to ask alex schmidt every week if he could distribute a new beta. >sorry, but that makes absolute no sense for me. >and what has a beta version to do with the "fully credit to the true author"? >sorry, but at the moment i don´t understand the world anymore. >if you don´t like toga based on fruit and me than it is absolutely ok. it is >your choice to use it or not. but i do not understand your arguments. >if you want i can send you 6 different beta versions. i am sure the computer >chess comunity needs all these beta versions. >sorry, there is no logic for me. >thomas I dont know how much you understand GPL ... but there are lot of sites which give you good explaination of its terms , restrictions and obligations. The original author opensourced his creation under GPL, and any derived work is expected to be compliant with it. It is not a matter of choice for you and yu cant try to use your best judgement , etc ideas. Baically , you are violating the license stipulations. How you adhere to the conditions - that is implementation dependent (you can have a cvs online , put in sourceforge , publish it to source code , etc , etc). The basic point is , you cant distribute versions which are derived from fruit and not make the corresponding source public ... Just pointing out the flaw in your logic vis-a-vis GPL. Maybe I am not as clear as how I should be in my explaination - google search will definitely help. And ofcourse ,there are others in this group who are far more knowledgable about this. - Mridul
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