Heh, wasn't trying to imply it was wrong of struts to copy anything from stripes as the license certainly allows it, and as I said there is no real bad blood going on between developers, but maybe towards the code of struts 1. =p
I did find the license amusing (and of course I went to look up what AMF was even though you said not too!) as you got me curious having done same rails work in the past. On Jun 4, 2010, at 10:56 AM, Freddy Daoud wrote: > I need to clarify some things.... > >> What's up with this: "(It's too late now, they already copied Tim's code.)", >> is Struts 2 just a bad copy of Stripes? > > First, of course I am referring to Tim Fennell, creator of Stripes. > > Second, Struts 2 is not a Stripes clone. They did not copy Stripes. But in > some releases of Struts 2, there is some code taken from Stripes and copied > into the Struts 2 code base. If memory serves, I think it was the class(es) > that did the automatic discovery work to reduce configuration. > > To be clear, they were perfectly allowed to copy this code. They left it > intact and included the credit to Tim as being the author. I'm not against > that they did this--probably better that they copy the code and give Tim > credit, rather than write their own code that is 99% the same and not give > Tim any credit. On the other hand, they didn't go out of their way to > inform Tim of this, either. > > Please, please, please do not turn this into a Struts 2 vs Stripes war. > There is no bad blood; let's not start any bleeding. > > Instead, just know that the important part of my post was that I found it > rather amusing that RubyAMF has an MIT license that has one exception, > saying that WebORB (their competitor) cannot use their code. I thought this > would give others a chuckle on a Friday. That's it. Leave the can of worms > closed. :-) > > Cheers, > Freddy > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate > GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the > lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo > _______________________________________________ > Stripes-users mailing list > Stripes-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/stripes-users
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