Dirk Engling wrote:
Dear JoeB,
since you just threatened me via private email to expose my evil plans
of preventing your ubercool project from taking FreeBSD by storm, I
would like to comment on your views and your project publicly
On 22.03.13 23:12, Fbsd8 wrote:
On the subject of qjail being a fork of ezjail, of course it is.
So, you've decided to run along with an existing code base to fork a
project. Congratulations.
You surely must have had reasons, like including features that the
original author told you never to implement. Like you found the project
abandoned and no one replied to your requests.
Well, except you did not. I found out about your fork by chance, after
someone directed my attention to your constant bragging and nagging.
Why, after all, would you ever feel the need to talk to me directly
about the fork? After all, what common interests might we possibly share?
So I think the only reason to rip off ezjails code was to boost your ego
with some impressive looking column of shell script you obviously had
trouble understanding, which comes as no surprise as you _still_ seem to
have trouble grasping even the basic concepts of shell scripting:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2013-January/248558.html
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2013-January/247723.html
Reading this I find it very disturbing that you try to lure users into
using your bumbling hack that pokes in one of the core security features
of FreeBSD. To put it more plainly: What you do is dangerous. Stop doing
it. You're putting your users at risk.
British member concluded that the author of ezjail must be British based
solely on the spelling of the flavour directory. He also convinced us
that his Beerware license was British humor, a joke, and should not be
taken serous. In our review of other jail ports we did not see this
Then tell your "British member" to read up on some contemporary
literature, maybe Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beerware
so he has a chance to understand what connects Beerware and FreeBSD. Do
not use your confused team member as pretext to violate the terms of
license you obviously found by yourself and chose to ignore.
file. It was inserted in the front like they have. We though that was
how you make software opensource which was the intention. There are no
formal copyright documents; it's just a extrapolation from the FreeBSD
comments.
Besides completely failing to see the point what the difference between
open source and public domain is, you do not have the slightest idea,
what a community of people sharing their code as open source is about.
The simple fact that you resort to Windows and IIS to serve your web
site should have warned me, that you do not actually have any connection
to the scene besides your gimme-gimme-gimme attitude.
To make my point clear: Open source software is about attribution. For
multiple reasons, most important to me: getting to socialize. Beerware
is not so much about getting the actual beer, but to have a chance to
sit together and talk with people sharing common interests. Now you rob
me of the chance to ever hear from people using my code disguised as yours.
Another reason, of course, is the pride we take in spending nearly ten
years on ezjail and we definitely do not like some script kiddie running
around adorn himself with plumes plucked from our asses.
section is not appropriate to include qjail under Freebsd opensource
type of license, then we can change the comments to say "totally free to
do as you wish as opensource" and leave it at that. If something else is
needed, please inform what that is by private email. To continue this
this subject in public is not appropriate. Please respect our wish in
this matter.
No, I will not respect your wishes, as you chose to ignore mine. You are
not totally free to do as you wish with the ezjail authors' code and you
can not grant that rights to someone else.
Regarding your fork: I can not and I will not prevent forks from
happening. So I wish you good luck with it. Maybe you learn some shell
on the way.
The qjail port has been marked RESTRICTED by the ports managers and I
will withdraw my concerns once you find a proper way to indicate
original authorship in a humble way.
Regards,
erdgeist
Dear Dirk Engling
I feel sorry for you. I man with such talent and respect has fallen to
such a level of self induced public humiliation. This outburst only
confirms my suspicion that your suffering from dementia caused by
advancing age. I tried to give you a way to save face as I purposed in
my private email to you. But now that you have moved things into the
public light you force me to publicly point out just how confused your
thinking is.
The FACT is the ezjail-3.2.3 port currently in the port system contains
NO verbiage concerning any type of license. Even the ezjail Makefile
doesn't invoke the BSD license.
Even after I informed you of this fact by private email (which I have
inserted below) you choose to publicly attack me in this manner. In this
post you cut and paste selected snippets of content from different posts
I made, which when inserted into the above post is taken totally out of
context. To make matters worse you use a subject which will slander my
efforts in creating a re-write of the handbook jail chapter. SHAME ON
YOU. YOU KNOW BETTER THAN TO DO THAT. I had parents who both went
through the confusion, forgetfulness, short term memory lose and
paranoia you are exhibiting now. I understand what you are going through
and forgive you for your actions. I pray you are under medical care for
this condition. There are drugs which reduce these effects and prolong
the periods of normalness.
After your first email informing me (which is inserted below) you had
qjail marked RESTRICTED, I replied in a very respectfully manner asking
you to inform me what you wanted stated in qjail to make you happy.
After a week of no reply from you, it become apparent your intention was
to never have the RESTRICTED status removed no matter what. Or more
likely you forgot all about it. At that point I installed the ezjail
port to read for myself what the ezjail license was all about and I find
NO license verbiage at all. Which is an indicator of short term memory
lose. The posting of this email where you say I threatened you is a
indicator of paranoia.
One does not have to be a lawyer to know the lack of any license
verbiage embedded in computer programs released to the public becomes
property of public domain forever. Putting license verbiage on your next
port version is unenforceable because it's already property of public
domain.
Only due to the respected position you have in the FreeBSD community did
the ports administrator accept your word as sufficient cause to mark
qjail's port as RESTRICTED. They should have at least reviewed the
ezjail port to verify your claim first.
Over the last week I have corresponded with the other members of the
qjail project team. With hind sight we realize we un-intentional omitted
stating any where that qjail was a fork of ezjail. This was not our
intention. We plan to correct that over sight by adding the following to
the "Authors" section of qjail's man page in the next release of qjail.
qjail is a fork of ezjail written by Dirk Engling.
I am sending this post to the ports mailing list. I am here by formally
requesting the RESTRICTED status be rescinded for lack of creditable
evidence to back Dirk Engling claim of qjail's failure to fulfill
ezjail's license requirements because there is no ezjail license at all.
Respectfully Yours
Joe Barbish for the qjail project team.
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what follows it the private email to Dirk Engling
sent Mon 3/25/2013 7:59 PM
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Dirk Engling,
I am at a loss to understand your claims in this matter.
I just downloaded the current port system ezjail-3.2.3 port and
installed it and fail to see any mention of your so called "Beerware"
license in the ezjail-admin script or the man page.
I respectfully suggest you have the suspension rescinded in the same
quick manner in which you got it activated. With out some creditable
evidence to back your claim I will be forced to publicly request someone
from the ports mailing list to inspect the ezjail-3.2.3 port now in the
ports system and let them judge for themselves the validity of your
current claim. Just like you emailed me about the suspension being
activated I expect you to also notify me of its removal in the next 2
days. I will just consider this whole thing a friendly mis-understanding.
Respectfully Yours
Joe Barbish for the qjail project team.
************** first contact from Dirk Engling
-----Original Message-----
From: Dirk Engling [mailto:erdge...@erdgeist.org]
Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 5:42 PM
To: Joe Barbish
Subject: qjail fork attribution
Hi Joe,
I noticed your unofficial ezjail fork after your attempts to promote our
little project in the FreeBSD handbook.
You might possibly have missed the Beerware license attached to the
ezjail project that asks anyone using the code to not claim it is theirs.
However it appears that you did exactly that and even claim a copyright
# Copyright 2010, Qjail project. All rights reserved.
that I definitely did not grant you.
For that reason I asked the port managers to suspend the qjail port
until we have talked things through and I find the Beerware license
respected and the project's original authors properly mentioned.
http://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/sysutils/qjail/Makefile?r1=311478&r2=31
4731
While in principle I don't have anything against nor can I prevent a
fork, I find your approach a little disturbing.
Please fix your license attribution in the sense Beerware was intended,
so I can withdraw my concerns and ask the ports managers to unset the
port's RESTRICTED flag. After that I wish you the best with your project.
erdgeist
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