For some reason this was not sent to emc-developers. Clearly, for reasons of his own this chap does not want LinuxCNC in Debian.
Frankly, I am OK with this. We haven't been in before and all my machine tools work just fine. This is not a fight I want to fight. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Adam Ant <adam...@engineer.com> Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2022 at 23:23 Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] Bug#1025433: Copyright issue To: andy pugh <bodge...@gmail.com> Cc: <1025...@bugs.debian.org> Source: linuxcnc Severity serious Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2022 at 1:36 AM From: "andy pugh" <bodge...@gmail.com> To: "EMC developers" <emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net>, "Adam Ant" < adam...@engineer.com> Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] Bug#1025433: Copyright issue On Thu, 8 Dec 2022 at 00:42, Adam Ant <adam...@engineer.com[mailto: adam...@engineer.com]> wrote: The correct course of action is to ask Paolo Mantegazza rather than debating symantics. You can not just pull substantial chunks of code from one source and then claim that you wrote it. But Paulo didn't write it _either_ If you go back in time to 2003: https://github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/blob/07bc1e161f834d8b192fe279819261294e5fe150/src/rtapi/procfs_macros.h[https://github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/blob/07bc1e161f834d8b192fe279819261294e5fe150/src/rtapi/procfs_macros.h] and compare that to a 1999 version of the RTAI file, the only line in common is "#include <linux/proc_fs.h>" At some point _both_ files included a chunk of work from Erwin Rol: // proc print macros - Contributed by: Erwin Rol (er...@muffin.org[mailto: er...@muffin.org]) _Most_ of both files was written by Erwin Rol. But both files existed previously, and separately, as far as I can tell looking back in both archives. Regardless of who wrote the original code, you can not take a file, hack it a little and then claim sole copyright yourself. It brings the Debian project in to disrepute if they host the package. -- atp "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment and is designed for the especial use of mechanical geniuses, daredevils and lunatics." — George Fitch, Atlanta Constitution Newspaper, 1912 _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
