Author: Tord Romstad
Date: 09:51:33 11/09/05
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On November 09, 2005 at 10:08:24, Eduard Nemeth wrote: >>Guenther > >Einmal noch auf deutsch rede ich hier Klartext um was es mir geht!! It is no better in German than in English. This is completely absurd. :-( >(Wenn ich nur besser english könnte...) > >Ein Programm ist kommerziell gegangen. Hinterlassen hat es einen offenen Code >zuf alle zugänglich. Alle diejenigen die sich dessen bemächtigen und nun >(nachdem das Programm kommerziell wurde) wären doch bedeppt wenn sie ihre Ideen >in sollch ein Programm reinstecken würden, wo sich davon garnichts haben, >während der eigentlliche Urheber sich aller fremder Ideen in der Zukunft >bemächtigen darf wenn er will! > >Wo bleibt das die Gerechtigkeit? Darum geht es mir und um nix anderes! You will find it hard to find *any* programmer who consider this to be unfair. Toga is about 99% Fruit and 1% additions by Thomas. He has been given almost the entire program for free. Even if we forget for a moment that not disclosing the source code is illegal, is it really unfair that he has to give his little additions back to the community? The truth is that you are free to take anything you want from Fruit 2.1 (algorithms, data structures, coding style, and so on) without ever having to give anything back. This is an enormous gift to the community. The only thing you cannot do without distributing your source code is to copy the actual source code of Fruit (or parts of it), but there is absolutely no reason to do so except pure laziness. Such laziness is not likely to be met with lots of sympathy from the community. >Somit sollte mE. nach die Sachlage neu interpretiert werden und den anderen >Programmierern ebenso die Freiheit gegeben werden ihre eigenen Ideen so zu >implementieren damit sie auch ihr geistiges Eigentum bleiben! It is OK to express dislike for the GPL license, there are a lot of people who don't like it. Basing a program on GPL software and later complaining about the consequences, on the other hand, is sheer stupidity. Nobody forced Thomas to base his program on Fruit. Tord
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