I was confused as to why his project wasn't working earlier this week, so I e-mailed Christophe who informed me about this thread.
As someone who has worked on a port of Genesis Plus in the past, (http://projects.sappharad.com/gcn/genplus/) I'm kind of biased in this situation, but I don't agree with the way it was handed. The license problem isn't eke's fault and there isn't anything he can do to change that since he's respecting the wishes of the original developer. This discussion has been covered in the previous thread linked above though, (which I also wasn't aware of until now) so that isn't why this is upsetting. The problem I have with the way you handled this is that you essentially killed the project without giving any advance notice that you were planning to do so. I understand that with the number of take- downs you might need to do every day that you really don't have time to "give someone a warning" in advance, but in this case the take-down wasn't due to a DMCA complaint or something of that nature. Would it really be that big of an inconvenience for you to give him some time to migrate the repository history and issue tracker data to somewhere else? I would be willing to host everything for you if that's what it takes to see everything come back in a "safe" place. I agree that his project may not fall under your definition of open source anymore, but I also agree that it's not right for someone to profit off of his work and not comply with the license it previously had. Please consider opening it back up for a week or something, I'm willing to help with whatever it takes to see that all of this history is not lost. Thanks in advance... On Apr 27, 8:53 am, Lucas Bergman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 8:20 AM, Christophe ekeeke <[email protected]>wrote: > > > In fact, i can't even access ANY googlecode projects (mine that are > > still active or other projects) with my account. It seems like my > > account was purely blocked without any notice to me. > > I unbanned your account. You're not an abusive user and shouldn't have been > banned. > > > I must say I find the overall method (shutting down a project on an > > anonymous delation without contacting project owner) quite offending... > > You have known for months that what you are doing is against policy. You > and I have corresponded privately about this. > > Again, i understand it's not 100% compatible with FSF philosophy... > > This is not about philosophy. We want our users to be able to download > programs from Google Code and be assured that they are Open Source in the > very specific, trademarked meaning of that term. Allowing projects that do > not fit that definition puts our users in harm's way. > > Your project seems really cool, and I hope you'll reconsider. > > Was the problem that people were selling derivative works of your code but > still complying with the GPL? If so, couldn't you use their source code to > incorporate their changes into your free version? > > -- Lucas -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Project Hosting on Google Code" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-code-hosting?hl=en.
