a person that puts in the work required to make something useful or creative deserves to put his name on it.
There's a difference between adding one's name and even copyright notice and doing it in both comments and with an "about" button that uses as many lines of code as the functional part of the front end. That's my only complaint.
Edit: Well, one of my only complaints. The other is declaring a copyright on something (especially like this) and then inviting others' input. Will the copyright then be expanded to accommodate everyone who contributes, and if so will it be collectively or proportionately and who's the judge for it? That's why I don't give a rat's ___ about licenses or whether people want to make them restrictive or not. I've never shied away from helping others, but I back off when I see people start slapping copyright notices on everything. Yeah, it's their right to do it. It's also mine to not appreciate it.lucky13: this app will get way bigger, as i said, this is just the base! soon the copyright will just be veeeery small part of the script...
ill try to find some stuff about the io.popen and the progressbar, but as even mikshaw doesnt know how it works... xD
EDIT oh, and lucky, check out some of the lua scripts in DSL, all with copyrights fro robertSI know Robert has copyrights in many of the scripts. The difference is he did a lot of those on his own and he gives credit to those who helped. I don't recall him adding "about"/ego buttons to any of his GUIs.Where's the beef? Putting out a template with mostly your copyright and asking for the community to contribute to code is very odd.
To compare your actions of copyright to roberts is even more odd. Robert brought Lua/Fltk scripting to DSL. Way before there was murgaLua. I don't how he did what he did. But many of us, including me, have the luxury to read and learn from his scripts. His style of writing them is easy to read and easy to learn.
Just try the murgaLua fluid examples and see that they look nothing like the style of Lua/Fltk that is Robert's style. Look at DSL-N all those Lua Fltk scripts that robert wrote was before murgaLua. If I recall he started with Lua 4.1 and Fltk way back around v0.7 something.
Dude, you need a dose of humility.@lucky: who says im not going to give credit to the people who help me??
Well, if everybody thinks its not the right place, ill cut the copyrights out of it... About button will be replaced by a help button...
Oh, and thx for all those reactions, it really's a good way to scare people away from helping the project by doing this... (this is not about you mikshaw and roberts!)
Lets all now go back to the thing this topic was originally created for, the SCRIPT...Next Page...
original here.