On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 11:33:02AM +0100, Julian Storer wrote: > Alfons: I expect an apology for your comment. I'm very rarely annoyed by > things that people post on forums, but you've misunderstood a passing > comment I made, and extrapolated it to suggest that I'm some kind of thief. > > All I meant was that on the couple of occasions when people (friends of > mine, in fact) have *voluntarily* contributed code to my project, I > ended up restructuring it because I didn't like the their coding style. > I don't steal code, and don't expect to be randomly accused of doing so > by people who know nothing about me.
Jules, I did not suggest that you were doing anything illegal, and as long as what you do is legal, you certainly are not a thief. But I do apologize, since the formulation of my comment did indeed leave room for it to be interpreted in the way you do. And, as you write, I do not know you and should have given you at least the benefit of doubt. What I still do find disturbing is that you claim your project to be GPL-ed. The dual license scheme effectively allows any user to buy him/herself out of his/her obligations under the GPL. The GPL itself does not AFAIK allow for such a buy-out, so as far as I can see it just doesn't apply. > ... So if you want to contribute, you'd need to be happy about me taking > over the copyright of any stuff you send me. I don't see the point. If you completely rewrite it - for whatever reason - the copyright on the new version is yours anyway. I don't have to be happy about it. -- FA
