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Originally Posted by chaosxj349
I cannot begin to even express how vex (upset) I am about this  .
The woman just basically shut down a guy who develops all his stuff for free...  and for the betterment of PPCers everywhere, sigh. Nice guys always finish last...
And the way it was done was just so unprofessional and  wrong, period. She came on the forum, dropped the legal ramblings and demanded that he provide the source/binary code for the program, or stop developing it using their "free" whatever it is, aka. F*** You, gimmie the goods so I can make a product and sell it to the masses for a profit  .
Makes me remember why I stopped developing programs. At least I got what I consider to be a perfect version v0.17 of the software before it was taken down (probably for good).
Back to the drawing board A_C, but thanks for your efforts none the less. |
But I think you are missing the point of open source. Someone lets you use their libraries for free - something that they coded themselves. All they ask in return is that you do the same and contribute your code to the community for others to build on in the same way. I truly appreciate A_C's work and maybe I don't understand what's going on here but if he chose not to abide by the terms under which the libraries were provided to him free of charge then he ought to use different code. You can't use some open source software to create something new and then close it off. That isn't how open source works.
If I'm missing the point please tell me but it seems like he is just re-doing things to be legit with the terms of the GPL.