Mark Kirkwood ha scritto:
b.n. wrote:
(The other is your admittedly elusive attitude to release fully
details on what happened, both on your webpages and this thread -for
example, we still have *no* link about the supposed attacks you
received *before* the relicensing, despite repeated requests for that).
m.
I think it is in here:
http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/linux-dist.html
specifically (quote):
In fact, this happened around y2004. I received a patch that was
intended to add UTF-8 support to mkisofs.
Unfortunately, the code quality of this patch was lousy. It
tried to incorrectly initialize a structure and it handled only
a few obvious cases. Many important issues with UTF-8 support
have been completely ignored. As a result, I rejected this patch
because I do care about code quality (I still need to be able to
maintain the code in a few years). The people in the Linux
distribution could have fixed the problems and created a useful
solution but they did not do this.
Now these people have been in trouble and needed an excuse for
their behavior. They created the fairy tale that there is a
license problem in cdrtools. They created a network of
"cooperation" and supported some people which created a fork of
cdrtools based on the fairy tale.....
I've read that, but
1)there is no *reference.* No link to a mailing list thread or such (I
don't remember if even the infamous Debian bug where the licensing
problem started is linked on Joerg pages, but at least it is easy to
find it) -so I don't know if it's true or not. Maybe that' me being a
scientist, so I am accustomed to expect at least a literature reference
if there is a potentially questionable statement in a scientific paper
-but I think it would help to actually see what he is talking about.
2)Statements like "now these people have been in trouble and needed an
excuse for their behaviour" looks like pure conspiracy theory. Why a
patch rejected puts people "in trouble"? Why did they need an "excuse"?
There is no logic in that. Such claims require proof.
Again, it is entirely possible that Joerg, despite his somehow weird
behaviour, could be right. But I fail to see the strong evidence that
should backup his strong statements.
m.
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