On 2003-12-17 00:57:43 +0000 Michael Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have received a number of
rather unkind e-mail from some members of the open-source community.
Please name them.
Please do not take offense. I am not criticizing the members of this
forum.
I am not taking offence, but I do not really see the point of "some
people flamed me" in an email. If you wish to reprimand someone,
please do so.
I mean, it is better to have something
available than nothing. Many people are using JasPer, in spite of its
non-ideal license. If I had prevented JasPer from being publically
available at all, what would this have really accomplished?
I was referring to it as a negotiating tactic, but maybe it would have
increased the demand for a free software implementation. By using a
web site to mislead people into believing that JasPer is open-source
free software, it could make one heck of a mess to waste the time of
free-software developers :-(
For the benefit of debian-legal, I quote what I consider misleading on
its web site: "The JasPer Project is an open-source initiative to
provide a free software-based reference implementation of the codec
specified in the JPEG-2000 Part-1 standard"
I am not a lawyer. So I am not going to pretend to be one. Image
Power and the University of British Columbia have lawyers who were
consulted during in the license drafting process. I trust that these
experienced individuals knew what they were doing.
Fair enough, but I do not know them and cannot understand their
actions. As the saying goes, "In God we trust. All others must bring
data." They have gone far beyond what many other lawyers have done.
Did you retain your own lawyers? Can you ask the lawyers involved why
they felt that extra protection is necessary? What parameters did you
give these lawyers? Were they aware of your stated aim to release a
free software implementation?
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