Re: Withdrawal of ITP
On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 05:39:54PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 11, 2000 at 01:14:07AM +1000, Craig Small wrote:
> > Err? How can something be GPL if part of it is licensed in some evil way
> > that sounds incompatible to GPL?
>
> Well, good question. I suppose the license technically means I can
> demand the source to the validation module. I don't like the chances
> of getting it without a court case though.
>
> > Sheesh, amateurs, software, licenses....
> > One day we'll all get it together, why oh why does it take so long for
> > the clue to sink in with these authors.
>
> Good question.
>
> In the case of the validation code, they're in the sticky situation
> where they want to hide the algorithm, but don't want to force validation
> to be done centrally. I think central validation is the correct answer
> myself, but there are some nice things about the current situation.
>
I think in this case the author (Dale Heatherington) doesn't even have
the source code for the validation stuff. He applied the GNU license
to his code, but the validation binary was provided by Steve Dimse, who
is honoring a previous agreement he had made not to release it,
although he is currently sympathetic to open source.
Xastir is somewhat different, since you send Steve your callsign and
he sends back a passcode.
Bob
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