On Monday, 12 בJuly 2010 01:05:55 [email protected] wrote: > > > > I think all or most of us (including Rusty who made non-trivial > > contributions), when they contribute to a GPL'd game, do it hoping the > > game > > stays true to the Free Software > > Definition<http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html>, > > of which the GPL is so to speak the legal arm. I think we should approach > > the problem from this perspective, rather than dissecting the GPL to see > > what its gray areas may or may not allow. > > I am one of the devs that hoped Wesnoth would stay true to this as it is > my main reason to contribute to floss software. From what I can understand > from the replies here this is not the case and I will therefore no longer > contribute to Wesnoth.
These are just my 2 cents (Since I only contibuted the FriBidi support code and some of the Hebrew translation few years ago it probably worth even less ;-) I completely identify with you and Russel -- BUT! * I first heard about it from Rusty's mail 3 days ago. * Within this short time, the thread has already started degenerating to "Let's take our stuff and go home" attitude. From what I have read so far it seems that: * The original iPhone porters do provide their work as fully GPL'ed source just like their other contributions to the project and are not deviating from the GPL rules/spirit. * Apple app-store clearly violates the terms of the GPL (and I won't even start talking about the GPL spirit). * As a result, the iPhone porters (and supporters) are now trapped between a rock and a hard place (you may rightly claim that they brought themselves to this place, but that's besides the point). Rusty raised an important (and IMO correct) issue. My suggestion: * Let's all try and lower our voices a bit, even if some of us think the iPhone porters made a grave mistake -- all of them deserve our respect (not blind obedience) due to their long term dedication to this project. * Let's postpone (for a reasonable time) painfull steps like withdrawing code. When people make wrong moves (we all do sometimes), they need to be given a chance to *fix* them and not immediate ultimatums. * Last, but not least, the iPhone porters should (IMHO) (re-)consider how they handle this not because some people would take their code away, but because (as evidently seen) moves like this breaks the ties of the developer community. So please, think about this again (maybe sleep over it for a few days) and try to come up with a workable plan. Thank you all, -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 [email protected] http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron Linux: The OS people choose without $200,000,000 of persuasion. -- Mike Coleman _______________________________________________ Wesnoth-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev
