Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 8 May 1999 15:15:27 +0200 (CEST) | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: [OT] util-linux-2.9p |
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On Sat, 8 May 1999 Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:
>But of course one can expect better behaviour from Andrea.
I am getting bored by these complains.
One of the basic property of GPL licence is to allow everybody to fork a GPL'd tree. So forking a GPL tree (as far as you won't break GPL because you left the copyright holder of the author, you won't link with no-GPL source as in the past KDE issue, etc..etc..) is _not_ a bad thing. If you don't like my behaviour is better that you start using a different licence for your code instead of complain. Since it was faster for me to take over instead of searching and then contacting the author (and as just said I was thinking that tunelp wasn't maintained anymore) I taken this faster way.
Before taking this way I spent 10 minutes searching on the network the official tunelp sources. The manpage doesn't mention Michael as the mantainer and I couldn't find the official ftp site for the sources (try with a man tunelp and you'll see how many info you get). And since I pay for the phone while I am connected to internet I stopped searching and I taken the _far_ faster and simpler unpolite path (and once the unpolite path is been started the only objective become the real work). I would redo the same now if I would be in the same context.
If the next time I'll be in a similar condition, you'll pay for the more time I should spend to take the polite path (for the phone to connect via modem etc..etc..) with _your_ money (instead of with the money of my parents), then, _only_ in such case, I'll be polite. Otherwise no-way and _stop_ complaining.
Now according to me the right thing to do is to merge my work on the official tree and then to delete my tunelp from my ftp area. But I am not going to send patches in my spare time because I just want to do other things in my spare time.
I would like if you would merge my tree in the official tunelp yourself, otherwise ignore me.
Andrea Arcangeli
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