Based on principle, I'd follow Fulvio. It seems that people are trying to
push him out of the project he created. That's pretty unacceptable, even
if you all came from 3rd tier universities.
On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 1:01 AM, John <joh...@js.id.au> wrote:
> On 14/03/13 22:34, Fulvio wrote:
> > - He added a few features like Engine Chess Tournaments but didn't send
> > back to scid his code (this is understandable for big features, but if
> > you find a bug or do a small improvement like "Clickable Variation
> > Arrows" or "Tri-coloured Tree Bar-Graphs" you should be nice enough to
> > send it back to the mainline from which you usually take code, but no
> > problem with this anyway)
>
> My own impression is that the SCID project wasn't interested in patches.
> However, if Steven's project had nice features you covert, the GPL
> entitles you to take them and use them as you will.
>
> It's exactly what the SCID on the go did, so as to use SCID databases.
>
>
> > - He didn't take a lot of code he didn't liked, expecially tcl/tk code,
> > because he have different ideas on usability and how the UI should be
> > (no problem with this)
> >
> If you have no problem with this, why mention it?
>
> > 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.
>
> Four years of code? It's over two years since anything was released! In
> any event, the changes to scidvspc have been more extensive, so fram a
> practical point of view, it's easier to merge into scidvspc than the
> other way.
>
> Fulvio, if you want to maintain a separate version, do it. Start right
> now, announce it right here and see who follows you.
>
>
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