On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 03:34:28PM +0100, Fulvio wrote: > - Four years ago Steven started is fork of Scid (no problem with this) > and after that he taked all the code he liked from scid mainline (no > problem with this, i don't know if he give credit back, but scid files > are unfortunately missing the required copyright statements anyway)
That will be a problem if a distro/maintainer wants to create a package. There is already a scid package in Debian, it would be a shame if it slipped through the cracks, as it were. > Now scidvspc is a separate open source project, with his happy users > (like you, if i understand correctly) and all will be good. > But now, for no reason i can understand, Steve (with Alex complicity) is > trying to delete the 4 years of code that people contributed to scid and > Steven didn't liked. > THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE, expecially considering that this is a GPL > project, you don't kill and delete concurrent projects to force people > to use your program. I agree wholeheartedly, a fork is OK as long you don't steal the name. I don't think "Steve's Chess Information Database" is acceptable :) -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
