> > On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 12:20 +0200, Dominic Rath wrote: > >/ This goes inentionally to you alone, feel free to bring it up on the list > >if you want... > />/ > />/ > You have made me start to wonder if it would be possible to bring some > />/ > sort of claim of "misrepresentation" against the project authors, were > />/ > your suggestion to be taken by others. The COPYING file is the standard > />/ > way of notifying potential authors of a project's license, so I think > />/ > that I would have a good chance of proving that the authors neglected to > />/ > inform authors -- whether by intention or accident. > />/ > />/ I suppose that means I have to remove all code you've contributed from > />/ the repository in order to protect myself from what you might or might > />/ not do. I will also have to ask all distributors to remove any version > />/ since january 2009. > / > Actually, that would no longer be acceptable; you are welcome to fork > the code, but I ask that you avoid making such changes. The license is > and was GPL, and I am now a copyright holder, maintainer, and active > contributor to the project. You would be taking a unilateral action > that would not be uniformly supported by the OpenOCD community, whereas > I am asserting my individual copyrights. I can do what I have done, but > the community should vote to exile my changes. >
You maybe are holder, maintainer, contributor ... but you are not the CREATOR / AUTHOR ! Please respect MR. Dominic Rath. He is the CREATOR of OpenOCD 2004 (with 1-2 years or more of intensive coding) I was myself a contributor to the project, but before there ais SVN ! Yes, strange for you. But I am a contributor too. What 'project contribution' means for you? - Adding a lot of patches - Donating hardware to end-users - Building binary for easy-of-use - Reading the forum - Writing to the forum - Documenting the project - ... All these tasks were needed to bring OpenOCD as it is actually. Each project/products needs manager - developer - tester - distributor - end-userSSSSSSSSS The end-users know what they need. OpenOCD has a success story as open source from 2004. Please respect the story ! Until now, the success story says D2XX is needed ! Sorry, it is. I am sure there will be better GPL code to push the D2XX out from the source. You will have a better GPL but a lot of regression regarding final speed. This is my opinion. - > You have abdicated your authority in this community, and I resent your > showing up here and making threats to remove my code. I have asserted > my rights after making a clear case that I have earned the privilege to > do so. You have effectively admitted to your own negligence with > regards to licensing, which you must now accept like a grown-up. Sorry. > > I am trying to work with the community. What are you trying to do? > Who is the totalitarian dictator here? > > >/ Not that I think that any remotely sane court would consider your > />/ claim, but I certainly wont take this chance. You've been threatening > />/ me personally with potential legal actions at least twice, and this is > />/ nothing I'm willing to accept. > / > I am threatening violators with action. Are you a violator? No, and I > would not take action against you unless you violated my copyrights, > which I have no reason to believe is the case or would be. Right? > > I will also say again that I am not interested in taking action for any > past violations, but I am willing to defend my rights in the future. > This position was made clear by me from the outset. Your opinion about > what a "remotely sane court" would or would not consider is exactly > that, and you need to decide whether you are willing to test it. > > Please get legal counsel before taking any action with the repository, > unless you would like to help constructively move the community out of > this morass. That will be my primary intention and focus. > > >/ Please think about what you've just suggested and feel free to clarify > />/ your point. > / > Ditto. > > Cheers, > > Zach _______________________________________________ Openocd-development mailing list Openocd-development@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/openocd-development
