On January 29, 2011 01:38:58 pm you wrote: > On 29 January 2011 18:22, Raymond Martin <lase...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On January 29, 2011 12:54:22 pm Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > >> On 1/29/11, Raymond Martin wrote: > >> > I have forked other projects before and tried to cooperate, follow > >> > licenses, only to have those projects act very territorial and not in > >> > the proper spirit of FOSS. > >> > > >> > Just fork anyway you like. It is best not to even bother letting the > >> > other project know what you are doing, it is not their business since > >> > they have freely chosen to go the FOSS way. Any complaining after the > >> > fact is just childish and stupid. > >> > >> What you are saying boils down to "people had been dicks on me, so > >> I'll be a dick on everybody else in return". Talk about childish :) > > > > Absolutely wrong. It is just a fact that you do not owe anything and are > > not required to do anything besides adhere to the license. It is just a > > waste of time to bother going through trying to be nice when so many > > people (like you perhaps) react the wrong way. Just do what you want > > with the software and forget all that childish crap. > > > > ... > > FOSS is everywhere by people acting like me. Not every company or > > developer that uses FOSS goes out of there way to thank the originators. > > They don't have to. Yet at some point they contribute their work that > > may be built on previous work. That is the thanks. So get a clue now and > > try to think beyond your ego. > > Just because the licenses don't mention being nice, acting with little > courtesy when it comes to using the code written by others won't hurt. > Otherwise I agree with you.
It won't hurt, but is not required in any way, shape, or form. And that is what people on this list are making a fuss about. They acting like it is absolutely required. That just shows ignorance of what FOSS is and that they cannot read licenses properly. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev