Hi everyone, Good to have both sides of the story. As always if all license issues are taken care of a fork is nothing bad.
owncloud/freecloud OpenOffice/LibreOffice freemedforms/freehealth That is life. Try to sort out any issues for the good of OpenSource. Best wishes, Sebastian Am Mittwoch, 17. August 2016, 08:04:44 CEST schrieb Jérôme Pinguet: > On 08/17/2016 12:37 AM, Eric Maeker wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > Firstly, excuse me for beeing so quiet these past few months. > > > > I wanted to inform you that the FreeMedForms project is still alive > > and will release soon a 1.0 version after one year of testing and > > debugging. > > > > The project has just been forked by Jérôme Pinguet. > > Yes I did. I forked a GPLv3 software. I also maintained, debugged, > upgraded and added new features to the code by myself for the last 14 > months, without any help from you or anyone else. Also, don't forget to > give due credit for the one year of debugging and testing. :) > > > The code and wiki are actually reproduced on one other website (a > > copy/paste effort). > > Don't forget to mention who set up and administered the Debian VPS, who > installed, upgraded, and maintained Apache 2, TLS certificates, Doxygen, > phpBB and Dokuwiki and who wrote 90% of the contributions to the wiki > for the past two years. The license of the wiki (GFDL) allows me to copy it. > > As he tells me, he wanted to have his own soft for his commercial > > activities and that he will ignore open source users comments and > > wishes... > > You are lying. You are spreading lies all over the Internet because you > cannot accept that someone forked your free and open source project... > this is getting embarrassing. > > > The FreeMedForms community will not support this fork and some members > > of the community asked me to bannish Jérôme Pinguet. > > I don't want to be part of your "community" anymore. I quit. That's > precisely why I forked FreeMedForms. > > > Nothing is done yet. All his access to the community servers, wiki, > > forum, repositories are currently removed. I think he stole private > > data too. > > You are throwing very serious accusations in public. Forking a GPL > software is legal, slander is not. Please get some rest (and maybe some > help) and think twice before going on with this useless smear campaign. > It is doing harm to both of us. > > > There is a threat, he will probably not respect the GPL license terms. > > You are probably having a meltdown and I feel sorry for you... > > I have no problem with the GPLv3 license terms. I have no problem with > the fact that you wrote 80% of the code. I have no problem with keeping > your copyright notice untouched in every file of the fork forever. All > the code I am writing, non profit and for profit, is free and open > source and published on public repositories... what about yours? If you > ever find more than 12 lines of code that I wrote and that are not free > software and publicly accessible on the web, I will offer you your > weight in bananas. I am a hardcore free software activist. I love > freedom. I love forking and I would love being forked. I love sharing. > What about you? > > > Open source can lead to such a situation, I hope we will find the best > > way to figure this. > > True. Open source can lead to people exercising their rights as free > software users and developers. Sit back, relax and read the definitions > of the four freedoms again. The best way to figure this out is to ask > yourself why you end up being alone in your open source community > despite being an excellent coder, but the Debian Med mailing list is NOT > the right place for introspection. I wish we could talk about this on > FreeMedForms' mailing lists but you excluded me after sending several > similar messages... > > > For sure, the FreeMedForms project is still alive and will pursue its > > efforts ! > > I am sorry for this off topic message but I couldn't let this slanderous > email unanswered. > > Eric, I think you should stop this act, you are only making a fool of > yourself. > > I forked your free and open source project, get over it. > > > Freely, > > Éric > > https://www.maeker.fr/ > > https://www.freemedforms.com/ > > Jérôme Pinguet > https://freehealth.io > https://freemedsoft.com > https://github.com/FreeHealth/freehealth
