Steve, we have a strong belief that you are the guy behind all this flame. And the reason for that is because your VNCScan lucks a built-in VNC viewer feature. Sorry, it won't work for you. ViewerX is not violating the GPL license.
Best regards, Yury SmartCode Solutions WWW: http://www.s-code.com Tel: +1 (650) 276-0434 or +65 91125904 Fax: +1 (801) 904-5158 ---------------------------------------- From: "Steve Bostedor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 6:15 AM To: "James Weatherall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Adam Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[email protected]> Subject: RE: What good is VNC's GPL? Hi everyone, I've been kinda quiet on this issue because their product competes with ours and I believe that it's best that I hold my toung for the most part. I've been very careful not to violate the GPL with my product since the very day that it was released but I can understand how Smartcode may have just simply misunderstood the GPL. Unless you have a lawyers mind, it's sometimes hard to wrap your brain around how it works. I strongly believe, though, that yuri will comply with the GPL now that it's explained by James. I think that Bob is correct in many aspects except that Yuri was being malicious in not giving up the code. I think that he just didn't know that he was in violation. (I hope, anyways) Bob, I honestly don't see the real value of that control anyways. What is this website that you plan to make of it that this control is so important for? I might be able to slap together an ActiveX control for you if you don't feel like waiting for this drama to play out. :) - Steve Bostedor http://www.vncscan.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Weatherall Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 6:00 AM To: 'Adam Moore'; [email protected] Subject: RE: What good is VNC's GPL? Adam, Since the ActiveX control is a work derived from the TightVNC Viewer, and since TightVNC is based upon the standard VNC Viewer 3.3.5, the ActiveX control must also be provided under the terms of the GPL. Cheers, Wez @ RealVNC Ltd. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adam Moore > Sent: 04 April 2005 03:56 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: What good is VNC's GPL? [snip] > Our product is a wrapper around the TightVNC code. Before the ViewerX > development had been started, we were aware about circumstances of > using GPLed code. And since the intention was to build a commercial > component, we decided to make it GPL savvy and build a wrapper. That > is about the best I can give you. The difficulty we have answering > these questions comes from how far we must answer them. Unfortunately > a few people try to ask questions to reveal how our proprietary code > works. So it is difficult for us to answer more than that. _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [email protected] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [email protected] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [email protected] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
