From: P R. <pa...@ma...> - 2015-08-03 21:35:18
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Hi Damien, When I first joined the Mantis Team, and effectively work free-of-charge, that was on the basis that the core developers were not making money out of it. I believe Victor broke that agreement - when he started up mantishub, and later on removed my access. That puts me in an interesting position: a) I was never asked to transfer copyright of the code I wrote to anyone else b) I (originally -yes, 10+ years ago) agreed not to ask for anything in return for my work on Mantis on the basis that the team were doing the same. At the moment, I believe I've been misled by Victor - who has used mantis for personal gain. Having spoken to a solicitor friend in the UK, he's advice to me was to ask the project to remove(/rewrite) contributions to Mantis from myself, and if this was refused, to submit a DMCA notice to Github. Both of those are actions I do not particularly want to do/consider as I believe that: a) Mantis over the last 3 years has mainly been developed by 3 people - Victor, yourself and myself. Rombert doing SOAP stuff occasionally, and atrol doing lots of user support. The contribution to mantis of each of us is tremendous, and I believe that trying to implement the first suggestion would be almost impossible. b) submitting DMCA notices - There is currently code in the mantisbt repository that was never part of core, and I asked about having removed. As you know from when we asked github, they can't do it because of the forks. Equally, I don't even want to consider trying to work out how github would attempt to handle a DMCA notice against part of a repository, but not a full repository... My solution and way out of the above problem has been to go back to what was discussed 4 years ago now (maybe even just before yourself and rombert joined the project) about implementing a mantisbt2 project which contains a modern design - it gives me something to do and avoids the issues I outline above. Some users I've worked with over the years may make a move to the new project - equally, others wouldn't - and over time, both projects would pick up new users. Paul -----Original Message----- From: Damien Regad [mailto:dr...@ma...] Sent: 03 August 2015 21:23 To: Man...@li... Subject: Re: [mantisbt-dev] FW: [mantisbt-commits] [mantisbt/mantisbt] 1c18e7: Credits: move grangeway and daryn to former devs s... On 03.08.2015 21:36, Paul Richards wrote: > It would be nice if you actually spoke to me first before removing > myself from the credit's. Hi Paul As the commit message says, I did not *remove* you from the list, I just moved your (and Daryn's) name to the "former developers" section. This reflects a change which was already made in 1.2.x branch several months ago, following your leaving the team... > I'm still developing on mantis daily. Glad to hear that, but I have not seen any activity from you since the day you closed all your PR's... D ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- _______________________________________________ mantisbt-dev mailing list man...@li... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mantisbt-dev |