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Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div dir="ltr">On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Thomas Charron <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:***@gmail.com" target="_blank">***@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 3:58 PM, SonWon <<a href="mailto:***@gmail.com">***@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> If it "is a violation of both the spirit and the letter of the GPL", then we<br>
> should discuss what drove him to that position. I think we would find that<br>
> open and free software has a dark side that nobody wants to address. People<br>
> claiming others work as their own. Our community needs to clean our own<br>
> house first before we can ask others to openly and freely share the code<br>
> they develop. If we let developers to continue to claim credit for code<br>
> they didn't develop then our community will continue to be diseased.<br>
<br>
</div> Then he would have legal basis to sue the pants off them. Instead,<br>
he decided to do something just as bad. So he's doing to other people<br>
exactly what was done to him. Did it happen? I don't know, but it<br>
probably did. That does not give him the right to turn around and<br>
steal the entire kernel from the thousands of people who authored it.<br>
<br>
--<br>
-- Thomas<br>
</blockquote></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div>
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Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div dir="ltr">On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Thomas Charron <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:***@gmail.com" target="_blank">***@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 3:58 PM, SonWon <<a href="mailto:***@gmail.com">***@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> If it "is a violation of both the spirit and the letter of the GPL", then we<br>
> should discuss what drove him to that position. I think we would find that<br>
> open and free software has a dark side that nobody wants to address. People<br>
> claiming others work as their own. Our community needs to clean our own<br>
> house first before we can ask others to openly and freely share the code<br>
> they develop. If we let developers to continue to claim credit for code<br>
> they didn't develop then our community will continue to be diseased.<br>
<br>
</div> Then he would have legal basis to sue the pants off them. Instead,<br>
he decided to do something just as bad. So he's doing to other people<br>
exactly what was done to him. Did it happen? I don't know, but it<br>
probably did. That does not give him the right to turn around and<br>
steal the entire kernel from the thousands of people who authored it.<br>
<br>
--<br>
-- Thomas<br>
</blockquote></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div>