On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 11:59, Sylvain Beucler <[email protected]> wrote: > Mario, > >> Please remove the "All riight reserved" statement (It is pointless in >> a free program) and add the full GPL notice as sugessted in >> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html#howto. > > It's a good idea, but it's not necessary to remove them (provided it's > otherwise clear that the program is released under the GPL). > > >> <blockquote> >> You can implement the missing feature yourself and senme a patch. I suppose >> you have the time and the will to contribute to z130 in the very same manner >> as you had the time and the will to search something to criticize of that >> project. Don't you?. >> </blockquote> >> >> Google takes very little time, much less time than it takes to look at every >> source file for "All Rights Reserved". I am an avid contributor and supporter >> of many open source and free software projects. However, I do not contribute >> to projects without tests or with poor documentation. Until the original >> author (you) invests the time to bring the code up to a baseline, why should >> others? Writing code without decent documentation violates the spirit of >> collaborative software development. You are "philosophically pure" but that >> only gets you so far. > > I'm not sure it's worth arguing over such matters, but up to you :)
Anyway, I'd suggest moving offlist for such discussions. ;)
