Re: Fwd: reiser4 non-free?
On 2004-04-30 17:26:50 +0100 Michael Milverton
<camel78@iprimus.com.au> wrote:
I read this as meaning the following. Nobody is allowed to take the
product
that we produce and rename it into something else, thereby making it
look as
though it really belongs to someone else.
You just ignored the bit where he forbids supression of the "credits"
banner? Although you might be able to argue for some form of this, it
is clearly more restrictive than what is written in the GPL.
and it is these people who are going against the spirit of the GPL.
What is
the point of having the code copyrighted to Hans Reiser in the source
code
when all the end user gets to see is that this software is called
company X.
It's a problem of degrees. Reasonable attribution is fine, but if
every command run in boot scrips output a screen of credits, just the
scrolling display would add considerably to the time and go past too
quick for anyone to read anything, for example. What is the point of
having the program attributed to Hans Reiser when all the end user
gets to see is a blur, or becomes used to skipping these messages?
I think people need to be more sensitive to the feelings of people
that put
such a huge amount of heart and soul into their software and not be
so quick
in dismissing their concerns. [...]
I agree with this. I think the same consideration should be given to
the debian developers. This whole feud seems to have started because a
debian package maintainer responded to a bug report from a debian user
and then they were accused of plagiarism in a confrontational
response. Not really a sinister plot to steal Hans Reiser's work.
--
MJR/slef
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