Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-22 Thread ZN
OK, this has now officially gone well into the ridiculous (I'm using a fair bit of energy to stop myself from using a much stronger word). The fact of the matter is, this argument over the licence is pointless because no one can nor should win it, because it's the wrong argument. There is

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-22 Thread wlenerz
On 21 May 2002, at 23:22, Richard Zidlicky wrote: this is reasonable - but it makes it even more clear that the license has a problem. Someone buys HW with SMSQ included, his vendor/original reseller goes out of business and now what. The user can't even get the free SMSQ upgrades for his

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-22 Thread wlenerz
On 21 May 2002, at 21:54, Roy Wood wrote: Actually no. We have nothing against commercial extensions to the O/S, in fact we would love it to happen. We just want the main code to be uniform as I keep saying. I don't really like patches but you can LRESPR code into SMSQ/E and you can add

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-22 Thread wlenerz
On 21 May 2002, at 23:38, Jeremy Taffel wrote: A lengthy response, please don't flame, I would appreciate a considered response. And a VERY long reply... As long as you don't flame me, I don't flame you I don't think I did, at least, obviously you feel different... :-) Because instead

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-22 Thread wlenerz
On 21 May 2002, at 6:42, Peter Graf wrote: Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: There is no difference between the free and non free developper Sure there is. Your commercial developer has agreements outside this license that make sure his executables won't be lost, and will be sold for him by

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-22 Thread wlenerz
On 22 May 2002, at 3:44, Dave wrote: The point is that people can write new modules that carry out *existing* module functionality, and distribute those, which actually increases the fragmentation of SMSQ in a way that the registrar is unable to control, because they would have no legal

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-22 Thread wlenerz
Hi all, I just noticed that the batch of yesterday's replies, that I sent early this morning, has gone down the drain, through my own fault (I sent them with the wrong from address, and they are filtered from this list, rightly so). I don't keep copies of the emails I send, so if you haven't

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-22 Thread wlenerz
On 22 May 2002, at 2:53, ZN wrote: (...) There is NOTHING in the licence to stop anyone from contributing extensions to the OS speciffically to ENABLE using free or commercial stuff as add-ons to it. As long as that extension does not 'close' a part of the OS, and presents an added value to

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-22 Thread ZN
On 22/05/02 at 14:28 Dave wrote: The part that they should contribute are the changes necessary to have this support as an external module, AND THAT'S IT. So who develops the kernel? That is a good question. It is really a cooperative effort, and the key to keeping it that way is finding a

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-22 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 11:18:26AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: May I remind everyone that by gaining access to the source, you will essentially be able to use code that someone somewhere has paid for to be written, essentially for free. It logically follows that any contribution

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-22 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 10:18:35AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 21 May 2002, at 23:22, Richard Zidlicky wrote: this is reasonable - but it makes it even more clear that the license has a problem. Someone buys HW with SMSQ included, his vendor/original reseller goes out of

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-22 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 10:18:35AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 21 May 2002, at 23:38, Jeremy Taffel wrote: Because instead of answering in a civil an unemotional way you get provoked into escalating the flame wars, and often don't address the legitimate (in their minds) concerns

RE: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-21 Thread Norman Dunbar
] Subject: Re: [ql-users] Source Code Simon Goodwin mentioned it in some article for some Linux magazine (don't ask me which). This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an addressee you must not read it and must

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-21 Thread Bill Cable
I do enjoy the diversity of opinions and the glimpses of personalities that occur in the give and take on this issue. And I do not think bad of anyone for their position but it is surprising how different they can be. I would think we would want to give the source code to anyone who would want to

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-21 Thread Mike MacNamara
Thanks Bill, I am glad to see I an not alone in my views Regards Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.macnamaras.com - Original Message - From: Bill Cable [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: QL Users [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 5:32 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Source Code I do enjoy

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-21 Thread Roy Wood
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Peter Graf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes SNIP I have asked a simple question, no answer. OK I make it even simpler: Can I have Roy's above statement, without additions that make it void, from you ??? What are the additions that make it void ? If you want to a reseller,

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-21 Thread Roy Wood
and here the problems start. The people have already paid for SMSQ so the new reseller is practically only supposed to distribute upgrades and provide support. This appears even less interesting for potential resellers because they can hardly charge very much for an upgrade. Most upgrades to

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-21 Thread Roy Wood
Quanta have never contributed to the development of SMSQ/E If you say so, OK, I seem to remember a few years ago a big conflab about using the Quanta funds to pay for a new OS(SMSQ?) On the other points, as I say you have always had my support, as have the other traders past and present., and

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-21 Thread Roy Wood
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bill Cable [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I do enjoy the diversity of opinions and the glimpses of personalities that occur in the give and take on this issue. And I do not think bad of anyone for their position but it is surprising how different they can be. I would

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-21 Thread Dexter
On Tue, 21 May 2002, Roy Wood wrote: This is a different issue. If your non-commercial developers don't want to work under the licence that is their problem, not yours. As a One small point. If ANY developer, commercial, private or otherwise, decides not to do work they might otherwise do

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-21 Thread Dexter
On Tue, 21 May 2002, Roy Wood wrote: freely distributable sources). SMSQ/E is modular so adding an extra commercial package to it would be easy. It is less hard to remove part of it and that is something we have all discussed. The practicalities of someone writing, say, a new file manager

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-21 Thread Richard Zidlicky
and here the problems start. The people have already paid for SMSQ so the new reseller is practically only supposed to distribute upgrades and provide support. This appears even less interesting for potential resellers because they can hardly charge very much for an upgrade. Most upgrades

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-21 Thread Jeremy Taffel
- Original Message - From: Wolfgang Lenerz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 10:10 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Source Code On 18 May 2002, at 1:22, Jeremy Taffel wrote: Wolfgang, A lengthy response, please don't flame, I would appreciate a considered

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-21 Thread Roy Wood
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Richard Zidlicky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Most upgrades to SMSQ/E have been provided free. The only exceptions were for the systems where there were colour driver implementations and where the actual version number changed. Jochen and I have done this without

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-21 Thread Roy Wood
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dexter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On Tue, 21 May 2002, Roy Wood wrote: This is a different issue. If your non-commercial developers don't want to work under the licence that is their problem, not yours. As a One small point. If ANY developer, commercial, private

Re: [ql-developers] Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-21 Thread Roy Wood
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Peter Graf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Hi Wolfgang, *** Distribution of executables for free was *not* forbidden in the first official statement! This has changed and caused severe implications on the availability of non-commercial work. *** I must take the

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-21 Thread Dave
On Tue, 21 May 2002, Roy Wood replied to something I said: I think this is the way most people would go. Obtain the sources, and use them to gain insight into SMSQ, then reproduce each modular section and release it under the GPL, until the entire OS has been replicated in a GPL'd version.

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-21 Thread Dave
On Wed, 22 May 2002, Roy Wood wrote: Yes but it is not your concern as a reseller. I agree that we do not want to lose any contribution but some people will not contribute because they have already fixed an attitude which is against what we are doing. This has always been the way of

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-20 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 18 May 2002, at 12:13, Richard Zidlicky wrote: (...) so don't comment private correspondence and answer the questions. So rephrase the questions without reference to private correspondence. Previously you asked me to voice my concerns publicaly so what do you actually want? What

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-20 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 19 May 2002, at 7:50, Dexter wrote: As a developer, one would expect to be kept up-to-date with the latest sources automatically. To expect developers to do so by mail, at their own expense, when there are instant methods available that incur no expense and enhance communication

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-20 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 18 May 2002, at 1:22, Jeremy Taffel wrote: Wolfgang, I detect from the tone of your response that you are a bit cheesed off with Richard's comments on the proposed licence. I'm not cheesed off by the reply. I'm cheesed off when reference is made to private correspondence. I think that

Re: [ql-developers] Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-20 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 19 May 2002, at 7:18, Dave Walker wrote: Timothy, When I got SMSQ/E from Jochen, I got: a) A generic SMSQ/E User Guide (38 pages) that was not machine specific b) Custom supplement pages for each hardware environment I bought (typically 6-10 pages) Same here when I got my Q60.

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-20 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 18 May 2002, at 12:40, Richard Zidlicky wrote: There is nothing in the license that would guarantee me any of my changes will get back into official SMSQ. That is true. On the contrary, the registrar has the right to oinclude/exclude any code. There is nothing in the license to

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-20 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 18 May 2002, at 22:08, Timothy Swenson wrote: > > It would be better to leave out stating who the official distributors are > in this Official Statement, and put it in a separate document. It would be > kind of like putting in the name of the Officers in a set of By-Laws, as > the names

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-20 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 19 May 2002, at 16:40, Richard Zidlicky wrote: unfortunately your inconvenience is only the smaller problem. The bigger one - what happens if you are fed up and go out of business? There are perhaps 100s of users with your hardware without any reseller, so to get SMSQ updates they

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-20 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 20 May 2002, at 1:43, ZN wrote: OK, I've been reading the licence discussion for quite a while and I find it does make sense for a world where the following is clearly defined that: 1) A generic SMSQ core, common to ALL platforms (*) 2) SMSQ extensions, or more precisely, additions or

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-20 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 19 May 2002, at 17:16, Peter Graf wrote: Just imagine today's license situation had already existed when Q40 hardware was finished. Not the slightest chance to have SMSQ/E on Q40. Untrue. And if TT had decided to stop development altogehthern, the chance would have been even less.

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-20 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
On 19 May 2002, at 13:52, James Hunkins wrote: I am sorry to say that I am very, very disappointed. You are not alone. (snip) I recently just joined this email list because I was hoping to get some help on some implementation problems that I am having with the QDT project. Sorry, I

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-20 Thread Mike MacNamara
- Original Message - From: Roy Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2002 11:33 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Source Code I agree entirely with Bill, having spent many thousands of pounds running several businesses with QLs and SMSQ/E, including Q40. We

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-20 Thread Peter Graf
Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: 4. Distribution of SMSQ/E executables for free was forbidden. This changes everything. It shows other passages of the license in a different light. The combination now means, that non-commercial contributors no longer get any rights from this license, except the

Re: [ql-developers] Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-20 Thread Peter Graf
Wolfgang wrote: Timothy, When I got SMSQ/E from Jochen, I got: a) A generic SMSQ/E User Guide (38 pages) that was not machine specific b) Custom supplement pages for each hardware environment I bought (typically 6-10 pages) Same here when I got my Q60. And more. Peter

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-20 Thread Peter Graf
Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: everybody was invited. No. Fact remains: This meeting was in the absence of Tony Tebby (who had the SMSQ/E rights), me (sick), DD Systems (not invited), or representatives of OpenSource development (vacation). Fine. Develop it. Get it accepted as an authorised

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-20 Thread Peter Graf
Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: Just imagine today's license situation had already existed when Q40 hardware was finished. Not the slightest chance to have SMSQ/E on Q40. Untrue. Rubbish. None of the guys who wrote operating systems for Q40 would ever do the same under this socalled license.

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-20 Thread Roy Wood
I do not agree, the QL has progressed to where it is by tinkerers playing about with it, and then making their efforts available, with or without charge, to the community. No other software carries these restrictions, and now that suspicion has entered the debate, it is not going to leave in a

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-20 Thread Roy Wood
In message 005a01c1ff8d$3d771310$b25d86d9@macnamark39uau, Mike MacNamara [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Where is Quantas input in this matter, I thought they contributed to the development of SMSQ. Why are they not distributing an official version, and as members will no doubt want to help develop

Re: [ql-developers] Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-20 Thread Roy Wood
I guess the point I was trying to make was that the 38 page guide was no where near comprehensive enough to document a full OS. I'm sure that it assumed that the user was already familiar with QDOS. The Gold Card/TKII manual was a little more in depth, as it only covered some extensions to

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-20 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 12:39:22PM +0200, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: On 19 May 2002, at 16:40, Richard Zidlicky wrote: unfortunately your inconvenience is only the smaller problem. The bigger one - what happens if you are fed up and go out of business? There are perhaps 100s of users with

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-20 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 11:10:35AM +0200, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: On 18 May 2002, at 1:22, Jeremy Taffel wrote: Wolfgang, I detect from the tone of your response that you are a bit cheesed off with Richard's comments on the proposed licence. I'm not cheesed off by the reply. I'm

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-20 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 11:10:35AM +0200, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: than the license is very badly engineered. It enforces discipline by rather brute methods that will only hurt people who would like to help and leaves too many important points wide open. I have proposed alternatives to

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-20 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 11:10:35AM +0200, Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: On 18 May 2002, at 12:13, Richard Zidlicky wrote: (...) so don't comment private correspondence and answer the questions. So rephrase the questions without reference to private correspondence. someone else happened

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-20 Thread Mike MacNamara
- Original Message - From: Roy Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 12:04 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Source Code In message 005a01c1ff8d$3d771310$b25d86d9@macnamark39uau, Mike MacNamara [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Where is Quantas input

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-20 Thread Dexter
On Tue, 21 May 2002, Mike MacNamara wrote: One point you make is that the QL is now just a hobby machine, why then all this fuss over a license for something people just want to play with.? Mike, Some people are quite upset about this license, and some disagree with it mildly, like me.

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-20 Thread Peter Graf
Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: There is no difference between the free and non free developper Sure there is. Your commercial developer has agreements outside this license that make sure his executables won't be lost, and will be sold for him by his resellers (which are also your appointed

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-20 Thread Peter Graf
Dave wrote: Some people are quite upset about this license, and some disagree with it mildly, like me. True, but you have it easier disagreeing just midly than we. For us it is not only a question of wasted work or time, but we have extremely expensive stuff on the shelf. Just for example the

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-19 Thread Dave Walker
- From: Timothy Swenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2002 6:08 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Source Code I've glanced over the comments made by others on the SMSQ/E official statement and have decided to take a nice long look at the statement myself

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-19 Thread Dexter
On Sun, 19 May 2002, Dave Walker wrote: Coming back to the original source code license, there has been a lot of discussion about only sending the source via physical media. I agree very strongly with others comments that this seems a needless restriction. It seems to add cost and

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-19 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 11:48:30AM +0200, Peter Graf wrote: As requested by Wolfgang Lenerz, I visit ql-users for a statement about the SMSQ/E license. The past: 1. SMSQ/E was simply a commercial product from commercial work. It was developed and supported by Tony Tebby for native 68k

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-19 Thread Bill Waugh
- Original Message - From: Roy Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SNIP that is the optimist view. However there is nothing in the license that would guarantee me that the source code would be continuously available in the future. There is nothing in the license that would

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-19 Thread Mike MacNamara
- Original Message - From: Bill Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2002 9:57 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Source Code - Original Message - From: Roy Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SNIP that is the optimist view. However

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-19 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 07:50:06AM +0100, Dexter wrote: If I end up handling hardware sales, would I have to become an SMSQ reseller? I'm not qualified. But if the resellers declined to offer the ZYXABC version of SMSQ (as they have done with the Qx0) I would have no choice but to find

Re: [ql-developers] Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-19 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 01:05:42AM +0100, Roy Wood wrote: Interestingly, not all legitimate commercial interests are served equally humbly here. When Peter Graf tried to acquire the right to give away (for free) SMSQ-Q40 binaries in exchange for a substantial payment to TT he was

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-19 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 12:52:06AM +0100, Roy Wood wrote: This is surely not a problem because the technically advanced can have the source code and do the fixes, pass these back to Richard and he can get them into an 'official' UQLX SMSQ/E. that is the optimist view. However there is

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-19 Thread Peter Graf
Dave wrote: Peter Graf and I do not exactly see eye to eye. We have agreed to disagree when it comes to developing hardware for the Qx0. Yes, and it is perfectly OK by me, if you prefer to develop for Goldfire or the black QL! They may need your help even more than Qx0. Just imagine today's

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-19 Thread Peter Graf
Mike wrote: I agree entirely with Bill, having spent many thousands of pounds running several businesses with QLs and SMSQ/E, including Q40. We stopped because of the lack of development keeping pace with the market. I was delighted when SMSQ/E was made open source, and looked forward to a

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-19 Thread Dexter
On Sun, 19 May 2002, Bill Waugh wrote: Well I have to tell you guys if as much effort had gone into code as has gone into nitpicking and general etimewasting then we would have the Space Shuttle running on SMSQE by now ( just don't enter any very long planet names though ). I wouldn't

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-19 Thread James Hunkins
I am sorry to say that I am very, very disappointed. I have been a loyal QL user from nearly day 1, have never made any money off of it, but keep going at it. I am now working extremely hard on QDT as some of you may know. To be honest, it is a labor of love. I will be happy if I ever make

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-19 Thread Malcolm Cadman
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], James Hunkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes I am sorry to say that I am very, very disappointed. I have been a loyal QL user from nearly day 1, have never made any money off of it, but keep going at it. I am now working extremely hard on QDT as some of you may know.

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-19 Thread Roy Wood
I agree entirely with Bill, having spent many thousands of pounds running several businesses with QLs and SMSQ/E, including Q40. We stopped because of the lack of development keeping pace with the market. I was delighted when SMSQ/E was made open source, and looked forward to a revival in QL

Re: [ql-developers] Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-19 Thread Roy Wood
As far as I can tell this was exactly what Peter wanted - what was the problem? He wanted a one off payment and exemption as far as I was told. -- Roy Wood Q Branch, 20 Locks Hill Portslade. Sussex. BN41 2LB. UK Tel : +44 (0)1273 386030 Fax : +44 (0)1273 430501 (New number!) Mobile +44(0)7836

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-19 Thread Roy Wood
Peter Graf and I do not exactly see eye to eye. We have agreed to disagree when it comes to developing hardware for the Qx0. However, I must stand up 100% in support for him. The resellers do not wish to sell a Qx0 version of SMSQ. The only way for them to supply Qx0 in this situation is to

Re: [ql-developers] Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-19 Thread Roy Wood
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Peter Graf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Roy Wood wrote: Distribution of executables for free was always forbidden. Not true. I refer to the official statement made in public, not to the secrets of your meeting. The fact that it was not forbidden in the beginning,

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-19 Thread Mike MacNamara
] www.macnamaras.com - Original Message - From: Roy Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2002 11:38 PM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Source Code All of this continual bickering and hair splitting is getting needlessly introspective You have easy to speak when you can change

Re: [ql-developers] Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-19 Thread Timothy Swenson
At 07:18 AM 5/19/2002 +0100, you wrote: Timothy, When I got SMSQ/E from Jochen, I got: a) A generic SMSQ/E User Guide (38 pages) that was not machine specific b) Custom supplement pages for each hardware environment I bought (typically 6-10 pages) I agree that the SMSQ/E Reference

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-19 Thread Timothy Swenson
I guess you have to be European to become flame bait on this mailing list. Here I thought my last message about support and SMSQ/E would send electronic fire and brimstone heading my way. Instead, It seemed like it made not a single blip on the radar. So, I'll ask again, when we talk about

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-19 Thread ZN
OK, I've been reading the licence discussion for quite a while and I find it does make sense for a world where the following is clearly defined that: 1) A generic SMSQ core, common to ALL platforms (*) 2) SMSQ extensions, or more precisely, additions or changes to the core, start as a

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-18 Thread Roy Wood
I detect from the tone of your response that you are a bit cheesed off with Richard's comments on the proposed licence. I missed out on some of this because I have been trying a new spam rejection program which was harder to configure than I thought so I apologise if some of my comments are

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-18 Thread Peter Graf
As requested by Wolfgang Lenerz, I visit ql-users for a statement about the SMSQ/E license. The past: 1. SMSQ/E was simply a commercial product from commercial work. It was developed and supported by Tony Tebby for native 68k hardware platforms, e.g. GoldCard, QXL, SuperGoldCard, Q40, Q60.

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-18 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 09:18:24AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 16 May 2002, at 13:28, Richard Zidlicky wrote: can you say me how exactly the license requires the resellers to provide support? In our private discussion you went to great lengths to ensure me how they are required

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-18 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 10:39:29AM +0100, Roy Wood wrote: I detect from the tone of your response that you are a bit cheesed off with Richard's comments on the proposed licence. I missed out on some of this because I have been trying a new spam rejection program which was harder to

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-18 Thread Roy Wood
This is surely not a problem because the technically advanced can have the source code and do the fixes, pass these back to Richard and he can get them into an 'official' UQLX SMSQ/E. that is the optimist view. However there is nothing in the license that would guarantee me that the source

Re: [ql-developers] Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-18 Thread Roy Wood
Interestingly, not all legitimate commercial interests are served equally humbly here. When Peter Graf tried to acquire the right to give away (for free) SMSQ-Q40 binaries in exchange for a substantial payment to TT he was turned down (not because he offered too little money btw).

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-18 Thread Timothy Swenson
I've glanced over the comments made by others on the SMSQ/E official statement and have decided to take a nice long look at the statement myself. The comments below are strictly my opinion, not based on any input from the other commentors. At 02:50 PM 5/13/2002 +0200, you wrote: Official

Re: [ql-developers] Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-18 Thread Dave Walker
that is what was being refrred to. Dave - Original Message - From: Timothy Swenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2002 4:59 AM Subject: Re: [ql-developers] Re: [ql-users] Source Code At 01:43 AM 5/19/2002 +0100, Roy Wood wrote: What rights are they ? As I have

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-17 Thread wlenerz
On 16 May 2002, at 13:28, Richard Zidlicky wrote: can you say me how exactly the license requires the resellers to provide support? In our private discussion you went to great lengths to ensure me how they are required to provide support but I can't find absolutely nothing specific about

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-17 Thread Jeremy Taffel
Wolfgang, I detect from the tone of your response that you are a bit cheesed off with Richard's comments on the proposed licence. I think that he has some valid points which you don't seem to have understood. Think of it this way: Richard has done a good job with UQLX and has it working on may

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-16 Thread Richard Zidlicky
... 3/ No distribution of SMSQ/E may be SOLD, except for the official distribution. This interdiction includes that of including and distributing SMSQ/E in Public domain libraries. Official distributions will be sold in compiled (binary) form, possibly together with the official

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-13 Thread wlenerz
Hi all, This is to keep you informed of the state and status of the SMSQ/E source code. The future licence-to-be has been a bit modified, notably to take into account the fact that test versions must be easily distributed. Here is the (still provisional) text. As usual, I invite all of

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-13 Thread Dave
On Mon, 13 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The future licence-to-be has been a bit modified, notably to take into account the fact that test versions must be easily distributed. Here is the (still provisional) text. As usual, I invite all of you to comment. Ok :o) 2/ SMSQ/E will be

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-13 Thread Jerome Grimbert
Sorry, it might be long. I will try to [snip] what I do not want to discuss. [EMAIL PROTECTED] makes some magical things to make me read } Hi all, } } This is to keep you informed of the state and } status of the SMSQ/E source code. } } The future licence-to-be has been a bit } modified,

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-13 Thread wlenerz
On 13 May 2002, at 16:04, Jerome Grimbert wrote: Good! but I think you need an appendix which states: - Who is the registar - What is the address of the registar - Who are the distributors/resellors (address and more also) yes of course, you're right, at least as far as the registrar

Re: [ql-users] Source Code

2002-05-13 Thread wlenerz
On 13 May 2002, at 13:44, Dave wrote: Never say things likje 'the registrar, i.e. me.' because this means me is the registrar. This is very open to abuse. You would here put a personal or organisation name and contact details. Obviously this is a draft, but this does need correcting. Sure

Re: [ql-users] Source Code Status

2002-04-09 Thread wlenerz
On 8 Apr 2002, at 15:52, Richard Zidlicky wrote: don't say it will be open source then - it won't. True. Forget those who have seen this as a great chance for SMSQ. I still see it as such. You can still get the code, you can still make changes, you can still dustribute your changes

Re: [ql-users] Source Code Status

2002-04-08 Thread wlenerz
On 26 Mar 2002, at 21:34, Timothy Swenson wrote: (...) 5/ Any person may make any change to the source code he feels like. Any person may give away to others the modificaton he thus made, including the official distribution in source code form only, provided this is made ENTIRELY FOR FREE -

Re: [ql-users] Source Code Status

2002-04-08 Thread wlenerz
On 26 Mar 2002, at 21:58, Richard Zidlicky wrote: No, compiled versions can only be obtained via the official resellers. HW vendors have to get a licence now, too.. if there is a way for them to get the license. Yes, sure there is - why shouldn't they become resellers? (testing

Re: [ql-users] Source Code Status

2002-04-08 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 09:34:31AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (soundforge) you don't have to, but there is nothing in the copyright statement that would forbid anyone from keeping an inofficial mirror on Sourceforge or wherever. Your paragraph 5 appears to allow that explicitly.

Re: [ql-users] Source Code Status

2002-03-27 Thread Phoebus Dokos
At 07:09 ìì 27/3/2002, you wrote: Great stuff! Thanks to all who brought it about, not least of all TT himself! At last the mysteries unveiled and we'll be in control of our own destiny. This could be a new beginning - or the way to dusty death. Only time will tell. Yes, the main benefit of

Re: [ql-users] Source Code Status

2002-03-27 Thread Roy Wood
In message 00e101c1d5ed$82778180$0100a8c0@gamma, P Witte [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes BIG SNIP I think you just said it all ! -- Roy Wood Q Branch, 20 Locks Hill Portslade. Sussex. BN41 2LB. UK Tel : +44 (0)1273 386030 Fax : +44 (0)1273 430501 (New number!) Mobile +44(0)7836 745501 Web :

RE: [ql-users] Source Code Status

2002-03-26 Thread Norman Dunbar
Wolfgang, even though there have been astonishingly few reactions so far. Probably shock ! TT allows SMSQ to go 'open' - it shocked me ! Of course, I take that as full approval of what been done You have my approval. Hopefully, when you get sorted out, I'll be sending off my IRC

Re: [ql-users] Source Code Status

2002-03-26 Thread Thierry Godefroy
On Mon, 25 Mar 2002 06:39:27 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Following the discussions at EIndhoven,here is what has been agreed upon, Tony TEBBY also having agreed to it: In short: In short this is GREAT NEWS ! :-)) Finally, I would like to add a personal note: A

Re: [ql-users] Source Code Status

2002-03-26 Thread Tony Firshman
On Tue, 26 Mar 2002 at 08:01:22, Jerome Grimbert wrote: (ref: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Tony Firshman makes some magical things to make me read } I have understood the bit about no charge in giving copies. As someone } running a PD library I'll mention here I'm happy to adhere strictly by } this. } I

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