[rs-users] retro license controversy rant

[Mudiaga O. <ob...@in...>]

(Unfortunately, I've been forced to deal=20
with politics instead of coding retro on
retro. Here's some text on that front)

I leave it up each person to come up and=20
speak for themselves. Most people didn't.

During this whole "fight" on the litestep ML,
I exchanged a couple of mails with Fahim. =20
You can find some of what he thought at

http://cyberian.tripod.com/arc20020120.htm#BlogID274

I assume everybody reading this will be
smart enough not to bother Fahim with
this issue...

Another thing to note is that I maintain
that I am not breaking the GPL or illegally
using other peoples copyrighted work.=20
Talking of which I think I should also share=20
one of those mails I left sitting in my=20
draft box.

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I got the first claim of specific code in retro
belonging to someone else. I thought I would
share it - maybe someone that understands the
code can tell me why the lsdev would think it's=20
his code...

As for him thinking I do not have permission to use them,
I have all the permissions releasing code under the GPL
(intends to and) grants me - I can read it, understand it,=20
and use gained knowledge freely. I did not "take" GPLed code,=20
instead I used it as reference.

One amusing thing is that the person who is making
these claims and trying to make life difficult
for retro is very probably guilty of taking
someone else's copyrighted material (if this=20
were not the case, the person must be very=20
silly for including the said code in litestep).

The functions claimed are the 2nd and 3rd functions
you can find in the file:=20

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/retrostep/retrostep/lsapi/=
util_ls.c?rev=3D1.1.1.1&content-type=3Dtext/vnd.viewcvs-markup

The lsdev version of those is at

http://builds.lsdev.org/cvs/index.cgi/ls-b24/lsapi/lsapi.cpp?rev=3D1.6&co=
ntent-type=3Dtext/x-cvsweb-markup

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~Mudi