Hi Ben, Sorry to see you go under these circumstances. Firstly, I want to reassure you that I can understand your frustration given the way things went. However, I don't appreciate the language used in your last email towards our fellow hackers. This reflects badly on the community as a whole, and I would like to see discussions on this list remain on a more professional level.
Now, that being said, I talked to bill-auger on IRC and he insisted that he does not hold any grudge or ill feelings or any negativity against you or your work. The hackers and the community very much appreciate your work as an artist and your contributions to the project. However, if parabola is operating as a professional free distribution of GNU/Linux, there is a certain set of rules we need to follow *to the letter* if we want to avoid legal trouble. This includes observing the terms dictated by the licenses of third party work we use, and especially give attribution where it is required. As far as I understand (and correct me please if I am wrong) you failed to do so. This was the issue bill-auger was trying to address. I can empathize that these legalese restrictions and the delay that was introduced in the current situation are suboptimal and frustrating, and I can also understand that it might have seemed as if we were trying to antagonize you, but in reality, we are bound by law. However, I feel like these issues should have been better communicated towards you, and I would like to apologize that things have escalated as they did due to that. All of that having been said, I would like to stress that you are of course welcome back anytime, if you decide to continue your work as a parabola artist, and we will gladly help you with any questions regarding licensing terms and proper attribution. All the best in your future work, Andreas -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ my GPG Public Key: https://files.grapentin.org/.gpg/public.key ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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