Hi William,

2011/5/8 William <[email protected]>

> Greetings Seb,
>
> Your proposal looks good.
>

OK


>
> I'll defer to Matt and/or others about the use of inline.  Personally
> I'd try to pick hardware that could all run at the same speed and mode
> and only call spi_init() once.
>

I'll reply to this with last Matt's message. To sum up, my opinion it's
better to keep it inlined.


>
> You asked about headers, and I assume by that you mean the boilerplate
> for author, copyright, zlib, etc.  So, I am answering here.
>

Well, though the copyright/authors issue remains opened, I was mostly
talking about the headers content as they are now. Do author, adapted-by
etc...  fields, as they are now, looks good to you ? For me, it's ok, I'm
just asking for a confirmation from you side.


>
> I made some hasty remarks the past few days that I regret, and I ask
> forgiveness for that.  My concerns for an author's copyright remains,
> but my conduct was poor.
>
> The future and long-term success of JALLIB is important to me. So, in
> (hopefully rare) cases like this, when the decision is made to replace
> an original work with a derived work, using the same filename, might
> help future situations like this if we did it somewhat formally.
>

This situation is tricky and, as I just said, and I agree with you, the
copyright/author issue remains opened, I'd really like to find a solution
for the future. I'll stick to the other thread about this point.


>
> I am not sure exactly how to do this but I am thinking it would be
> something like:  move my name and copyright further down in the header
> somewhere or in the comment section, and add your own name and
> copyright at the top of the file.  This would, it seems to me, comply
> with the ZLIB clause #3.   You probably had this in mind when you left
> my name as author of spi_master_hw2.jal and I regret my mis-handling
> of that.
>

Yes, I kept your name as author (then put my name as Adapted-by as I forgot
it),  for this reason.

That said, the huge mistake I did was to bypass your consent and modify the
library without your permission. When I remember my "mood" at that time, I
can say I was pretty exciting about having my SD card working, I focused
more on the code than on headers. I've also been involved in quite a lot of
different libraries I wasn't the author of these days, so I just modified
it, well, you know, like "that". It's like authorship, from copyright point
of view, not credits, is shared in jallib, making decision as a team.
Anyway, my fault, I apologize, and sure will check this in the future.


> You all have obviously taken the SPI libraries far beyond what I
> needed, and clearly at this point (with your proposal) it is a
> 'derived work' and you deserve credit for that.
>

According to previous insights, if you accept current changes, this can be
kept as the original version, the original work. This is by far my
preference.


Cheers,
Seb

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