On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 12:40 AM, Cole Johnson <[email protected]>wrote:
> <snip> > > It is clear Chad Goodman and Eric D, among many other XDA developers are > in violation. For people arguing /for/ Chad, I'm pretty sure, no - am > /completely/ sure that if you upload your binaries to a /publicly/ > accessible place, that constitutes as distribution. > > <snip> > > I say we bring the discussions to an end. Doing so will allow us to > actually /be able/ to create a pool of copyright holders. The constant back > and forth here about what constitutes distribution is really getting on my > nerves. I hope it can just stop. > Eric D. is a copyright holder unless I have my Eric's mixed up and I do know there is a pending lawsuit against *Faux123 (Paul Reioux). *I think Eric D. was bringing to light a possible GPL violation when he got what appeared to be a go away response from the developer not starting a distribution discussion so it appears you are reading more into this than is there . > > Now as for the pool, I for one, am /not/ a copyright holder on the Linux > Kernel. The only copyrights on GPL (or compatible) code I own is my own > stuff at SourceForge [<http://sourceforge.net/projects/colejohnson66.u>] > and "catalog.c" in libxml2 [< > https://mail.gnome.org/archives/commits-list/2013-March/msg19654.html>]. > That's it. So I can't do anything about Chad and his minions, but I hope > the actual copyright holders on this list can. > Since Eric D. is a copyright holder who is the real minion here? You don't have to be insulting by trying to label people. > ---- > > Cole Johnson > -- E-mail: [email protected] > -- Twitter: @5urd > > Hexware, LLC > -- Twitter: @HexwareLLC > ~SonWon
