On 10/13/10 02:37, Jeremy wrote: > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 5:11 PM, <fons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 04:49:59PM -0400, drew Roberts wrote: >> >>> Does the software world need a better way to handle this reputation >> issue? >>> (The rest of the world in general as well perhaps?) Is there any way to >> build >>> a signed binary where this can be checked from within the binary itself? >>> Perhaps stick the signature at the end of the binary and have the signing >>> routine check all but the area that holds the signature? (Not well >> thought >>> out, just an off the cuff idea.) >> >> Nothing new is needed. Except maybe a more widespread awareness >> that if the free software world is turned into the Far West it's >> not going to last. >> >> Ciao, >> >> -- >> FA >> >> There are three of them, and Alleline. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Linux-audio-user mailing list >> Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user >> > > Is releasing changes to other peoples' software really the equivalent of > "the Far West"? I think it refers to the fact that Torben did not add himself as Author to the source-code and left no reference other than the git log entries. OTOH in Torben's defence: It's kind of tricky to do so: There's no AUTHORS file nor any ChangeLog or README which usually come with FLOSS projects to simplify that process. Torben stated it's very ad-hoc, but it would have been nicer to first mail this to Fons rather than LAU. > Isn't that the entire point of releasing something under the GPL instead of, > say, a shared source license? > > If you don't like the work he did, by all means, disassociate yourself from > it. Easier said than done. > but please, don't say that you're not going to release any more software > just because someone released a change to a GPL program of yours. I second that. > Jeremy robin _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
