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Can somebody please come to my rescue on this one:
This was posted to the developer's list. It would be nice to get an
apology or at least a link to the posting from which he launches such an attack:
Dick, enough of this whining. The article on gnu.org is more than an opinion
piece - unless
you really don't know what/who gnu.org is. While I and others here do appreciate
contributions made by all involved, your contributions do not entitle you to the
rest of the
code base. The GPL license is not revocable. You can take your lines of the
code (and only
just what you wrote) and do what you want, but you can't take Jean Pierre's
code, even if
you have modified it, without violating the GPL.
I'm hereby asking Jean Pierre if he could please make it clear to this list if
he has ANY
intent of turning this package away from GPL for Dick or anyone else. I think
all involved
should know here and now if this is going to remain an open GPL project or not.
I don't
think anyone else here is interested in seeing kicad become a proprietary
package.
If Dick thinks he can just take the entire code base as his, I'm sure that FSF
would help
with the legal costs of stopping him. (To donate to FSF see
http://www.fsf.org/associate/support_freedom/donate )
FSF has stepped up to the plate before and stopped people from appropriating GPL
software
for their own ends. The cost of IP litigation is not cheap, so I would recommend
Dick to
talk to an IP attorney before doing something stupid.
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