On 2/17/15 6:52 PM, Pete Matos wrote: > I guess we will have to agree to disagree... I feel like MANY MANY people > have given freely of their time to make linuxCNC into what it is today > INCLUDING things like User interfaces and many many other add ons that make > the program so enjoyable and stable to use. They gave of it freely and > willingly and I thank ALL of them for their efforts. If you ask me ANYONE > who takes that work and changes it and makes it better for whatever reason > owes it to all of those who came before to give of it freely. ESPECIALLY if > you intend to put your name on it and profit from it! I really do not > understand the lack of interest in pursuing this here. I appreciate that > they paid for the work on the TP but again that is something added to the > collective work that MANY MANY others have done. I think the least they > could do is to make it available to the community as a whole in some shape > or form. I am sorry but I have to disagree with you here.. Peace
I am no lawyer, but i believe Tormach has created a derivative work[0] from LinuxCNC. According to the GNU General Public License[1] under which LinuxCNC is published, Tormach is now legally required to provide the source code of their derivative work. The normal way to do this would be to publish a link to a git repo. 0: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6366 1: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html Tormach has displayed good will towards individual members of our community, and towards the community as a whole, and i hope and believe they will continue to do so by following the spirit of the community as well as the letter of the law. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=190641631&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
