Why this is being relived... On Fri, 26 May 2017 17:16:13 +0900 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 15 May 2017 15:09:26 -0400 "William L. Thomson Jr." > <[email protected]> said: < > > Ecrire is NOT your project. It never has been. Now it definitely > > will not be. Nor will I look to ever want to gain access to > > git.e.org repos. Not with a crazy tyrant running around. > > Ok... I think we have our core issue here. You THINK that somehow the > ecrire repository legally or morally belongs to a single individual > and since you spoke to Tom to take over you believe it belongs to > you. It does not. I did that per YOUR request to make YOU happy. It is totally moot to me, and I will proceed on with ecrire as I have regardless. > I could read that between the lines of your original mail I responded > to and now I have it clear as daylight. I am quite familiar with open source licenses and copyright. > First - from a copyright point of view, The fact I have now modified > the code gives me legal copyright over that code. Commenting out others code/work. Hardly would be considered as you being the author of the code/work in any court of law. You own work you authored. Any previous work still belongs to that author for the term of the copyright. > Without copyright > assignment explicitly done (via a signed legally enforceable > agreement), I retain copyright to any code I write... You did not write anything.... You commented out code. So funny! That gives you legal ownership of nothing. > This is the exact attitude I detected and this attitude is 100% not > acceptable around here. Look in the mirror. Why are you bringing this up again? I surely will not bother to ever want access to any git.e.org repos. Not after this experience. -- William L. Thomson Jr.
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