It doesn't hold any water, but it's not worth risking the legal hassle
to prove it.
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On Apr 29, 2010, at 8:09 AM, Lars Tandle Kyllingstad
<[email protected]> wrote:
I agree, and I also find their claim rather strange. I don't think
they
can prevent others from creating code with a similar interface to
theirs. (If that were the case, the Wine and Mono devs would be in
big
trouble.)
So that leaves the code. Unless SHOO has copy-pasted the code from
Tango, I cannot see how their claim holds any water. There are only
so
many ways to figure out which day of the month it is.
-Lars
On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 07:52 -0700, Sean Kelly wrote:
That's effing ridiculous. The D community could really do without
this kind of behavior.
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On Apr 28, 2010, at 7:38 PM, Walter Bright <[email protected]>
wrote:
One of the Tango developers called me today. There are 5 developers
of the Tango time library, and they feel that the Phobos time lib
submission is close enough to theirs to be considered an
infringement on their license. The Tango license is the BSD license,
which does not permit others changing the license, such as to Boost
which is the Phobos license.
I am not qualified to compare the two source code bases and make a
legal determination if there is infringement or not. And quite
frankly, I don't want to split legal hairs about it against the
Tango developers' wishes. I've invited the Tango devs to subscribe
to this mailing list, and I hope we can come to a resolution:
1. I think the best solution would be for Tango to relicense the
time module under the Boost license, which would require the
agreement of the five time module developers. Then, the Phobos
version would include them as authors and they'd share in the
copyright.
2. Next would be if the Tango developers who do agree to the Boost
license would identify their contributions, those would get
authorship & copyright credit, etc. Tango developers who do not
agree would identify code they consider infringing, and that code
would be removed from the Phobos version, and possibly reimplemented
by someone who has not looked at the Tango version.
The bottom line is the Tango devs should get the final say on what
is infringing and what isn't, and we won't relicense infringing code
into Phobos without their explicit permission.
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