crusadingknight
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Posted: July 06 2006,20:34 |
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| Quote | OK. Lua/Gui scripts. This seems like this is getting personal. Let me get this straight...
The same copyright banner that Klaus Knopper uses on his original works is OK. But it is not OK if I use it 
For the FOSS movement to thrive, there needs to be respect for original work of others. If a copyright notice offends then I have to wonder of the motivation. For it, the copyright notice, is the same as the work that I have contributed to and extended it capabilites.
So, is the point of this thread to say that Knoppix is not open source If not what exactly is the point? |
No, the point was we can't find any straight-up information. All my work goes under the BSD license for that reason, so that nobody ever has to start this kind of thread. We're not inconsiderate, just confused - and not by your copyright notice, but your lack of explicit copyright terms. On the Knoppix question, how should we know that? We're using DSL, not Knoppix.
| Quote | | Maybe you guys missed the announcement that INSERT linux is starting to use the Lua/GUI scripts from DSL. Or the many other deverative works based on DSL which do give credit. |
No, we never saw the INSERT announcement, or the other announcements. It seems very unusual to have to google to determine the licensing terms of software.
| Quote | | Reminds of recent history, when most everything I wrote was copied by another distro, except they translated it into perl, and of course not giving me, the original author credit. Would you remove Klaus Knopper's name from his scripts? I think not. Would you rewite some of his scripts into perl and claim it was your original work? I think not. But this is what some wish to do to my original work? |
Again, you seem to be reading more into this than anyone intended. We're mainly confused due to the lack of BSD/GPL or similiar notice, not the fact a notice is there. Also, about the perl - I got a note on this just yesterday (it's also posted on a few forums, and CPAN). Somebody rewrote my C code (about 5 000 lines, so not much work) as a Perl module, thanking me only briefly in the announcement, no thank you in a README or the like. However, I choose more to be happy that my work was useful to someone else, rather than angry that they chose to rewrite my work in a form that would be usable to a wider audience. I personally belive software patents are a bad thing, but I suppose that part of my opinion doesn't pertain to this thread.
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