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Subject: Re: Fruit Source Code and what is legal

Author: David Mitchell

Date: 23:00:03 09/18/05

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On September 19, 2005 at 01:19:50, Jonas Cohonas wrote:

>>I think there's a real difference between someone like Toga's author, who was
>>always up-front about Toga being based on Fruit,
>
>Toga started out as an "original" engine until Thomas (the "author") was busted,
>since then he has been open about both trying to pass Toga off as his own work
>in the beginning and later that Toga was based on Fruit, but it did take some
>time to get him to comply with the GPL licence and make his modifications of
>Fruit publicly available.

Thanks for the info, Jonas. I wasn't aware of the earlier "pass off" history by
Thomas.

Does this prove the old saying that "a wink is as good as a nod to a blind
horse"? :)

Dave



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