7 Feb
2016
7 Feb
'16
8:45 p.m.
On Sun, 7 Feb 2016 13:00:26 -0500, Bryan Fields
<Bryan(a)bryanfields.net> wrote:
The bigger issue is 44net relying on a piece of
software without a defined
license. You could stop development of it and that would be the end of it.
There is no legal way we'd be able to use your code and continue to develop it
going forward.
I've seen this happen with countless other amateur radio developed projects,
and don't want to see it happen once again. I understand wanting to retain
control of this, but the only way it's going to grow. You're the founder and
the architect, that's not going to change.
Well, in contrast, I've seen plenty of dead FOSS projects on the net.
One only has to browse Sourceforge to find a dozen dead projects with
zero contributions because the lead developer walked away. I'm not
even sure there's a method for getting write access to them in those
cases unless one copies the repo and starts a new one.
Personally, I've found projects that needed work, fixed some bugs or
added features and tried to contact the owners of the project to
submit a change and never heard back.
Look at GoogleCode for FOSS repositories that are simply frozen in
time to no purpose. Sourceforge could go dark tomorrow and we'd lose a
vast amount of code.
--
Geoff Joy - ke6qh -
AmprNet IP Address Coordinator for San Bernardino & Riverside Counties.
(44.18/16)