Re: [LAD] What if a fork is not a fork?

On January 29, 2011 01:38:58 pm you wrote:
> On 29 January 2011 18:22, Raymond Martin <laseray@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> > On January 29, 2011 12:54:22 pm Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
> >> On 1/29/11, Raymond Martin wrote:
> >> > I have forked other projects before and tried to cooperate, follow
> >> > licenses, only to have those projects act very territorial and not in
> >> > the proper spirit of FOSS.
> >> >
> >> > Just fork anyway you like. It is best not to even bother letting the
> >> > other project know what you are doing, it is not their business since
> >> > they have freely chosen to go the FOSS way. Any complaining after the
> >> > fact is just childish and stupid.
> >>
> >> What you are saying boils down to "people had been dicks on me, so
> >> I'll be a dick on everybody else in return". Talk about childish :)
> >
> > Absolutely wrong. It is just a fact that you do not owe anything and are
> > not required to do anything besides adhere to the license. It is just a
> > waste of time to bother going through trying to be nice when so many
> > people (like you perhaps) react the wrong way. Just do what you want
> > with the software and forget all that childish crap.
> >
> > ...
> > FOSS is everywhere by people acting like me. Not every company or
> > developer that uses FOSS goes out of there way to thank the originators.
> > They don't have to. Yet at some point they contribute their work that
> > may be built on previous work. That is the thanks. So get a clue now and
> > try to think beyond your ego.
>
> Just because the licenses don't mention being nice, acting with little
> courtesy when it comes to using the code written by others won't hurt.
> Otherwise I agree with you.

It won't hurt, but is not required in any way, shape, or form. And that is
what people on this list are making a fuss about. They acting like it is
absolutely required. That just shows ignorance of what FOSS is and that they
cannot read licenses properly.

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Received on Sun Jan 30 00:15:04 2011