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From: Erwin W. <wat...@xs...> - 2014-05-25 18:53:08
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Op 24-5-2014 21:45 Earnie Boyd schreef: > If there was as much time spent on producing patches for MinGW.org as > there is in speculative rumor and assumption the project would be > further along with its own 64bit compliant headers. > > The fact is Kai did not produce a patch, he produced a replacement and > we pushed back asking for patches. He decided to take it up with the > company he works for and that company's lawyers blessed it; so Kai > started a new project. I refuse to speculate one way or another as to > infringement or not; I don't have the time to look but because his > company's lawyers saw nothing and because Redhat's lawyers with Cygwin > blessed it then my assumption would be that they are copesetic with > regard to copyright goodness. > > I am not saying Kai was correct in his decision to fork but he had the > right to do so and I will not throw mud or hold hostility toward him > for it. Let us consider the subject closed and move MinGW.org toward > a more complete product. > Isn't that one of the blessings of open source? That everybody can take the source and fork it. Only being f[ou][rc]ked doesn't feel so nice... regards, -- Erwin |