Re: [rs-users] retro license controversy rant

[demigod <de...@me...>]

I don't even know why you are bothering with this.  Its just plain stupid.
The gpl is so convoluted, untested, and oddly limiting in the wrong areas.
And i STILL don't understand the big up in arms mess.  It's not like your
selling this and making a bucket load of cash by riding on someone elses
code.  Bah, this has happened before and will probalby happen again.  I say
let it all go, let them blow of steam, and continue on your path and with
what ever license you wish.

demigod

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mudiaga Obada" <ob...@in...>
To: "Rs U Ml" <ret...@li...>
Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 9:48 AM
Subject: [rs-users] retro license controversy rant


> (Unfortunately, I've been forced to deal
> 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
> speak for themselves. Most people didn't.
>
> During this whole "fight" on the litestep ML,
> I exchanged a couple of mails with Fahim.
> 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.
> Talking of which I think I should also share
> one of those mails I left sitting in my
> draft box.
>
> ----------------
>
> 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
> 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,
> and use gained knowledge freely. I did not "take" GPLed code,
> 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
> were not the case, the person must be very
> silly for including the said code in litestep).
>
> The functions claimed are the 2nd and 3rd functions
> you can find in the file:
>
>
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/retrostep/retrostep/lsapi/uti
l_ls.c?rev=1.1.1.1&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
>
> The lsdev version of those is at
>
>
http://builds.lsdev.org/cvs/index.cgi/ls-b24/lsapi/lsapi.cpp?rev=1.6&content
-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
>
> ----------------
>
> ~Mudi
>
>
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