RE: Re: Announcing the VM/370 and VM/380 "SixPack" version 1.2 release candidate 1!

Wow

 

That’s a lot more than I wanted or intended. 

This is just fun and games

Seems to me you are nitpicking for no real reason.

 

Interpert "NO LICENSE" as you will.

Copyright – License etc. are not my intentions here.

 

It's all about learning and having fun and passing knowledege on.

And getting a full screen editor and IND$FILE to work in VM. 

Seems to me that for all the years that VM/370 has been around someone would
have done that before this. Especially the IND$FilLE part. Using the reader
and edit was primitive.

 

Source control is time consuming  and an additional hassle that I don't
really want to deal with.

 

As I said - Putting the source on the Hercules distribution would sort of
make it  "two official versions"  of my source .

The one I am still developing and which will appear from time to time on my
site, and the one on Hercules which I have no way of updating.

I think that would cause more confusion then help.

 

Be my guest and take it off  my site and change or do as you will with it.

If I make any significant changes to the source I'll put it out there again.

 

If anybody wants the latest they can write me and I will send it.

You can freely distribute the source to anybody as long as you tell them
that its your version and not my version. 

(if you want to give me some credits I'll appreciate that but it is not
required)

 

More than that I cannot do and I have no idea why you are hasseling me about
this.

If you make changes and they get put on the SIX-PACK then it's your problem
and not mine

 

Actually now that you brought up all these silly issues – How about figuring
out the proper language to say that if you copy the ideas and sell them as a
commercial product and make lots of money off of that and become a
multi-millionaire, (if you are not already one), then you should give me
some so I can continue to eat.  

 

PS

I do not have a real web site with super security and leaving my router open
for the world seems to be irresponsible.

 

Roc

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
kerravon86
Sent: Sunday, October 10, 2010 05:17 
To: [email protected]
Subject: [H390-VM] Re: Announcing the VM/370 and VM/380 "SixPack" version
1.2 release candidate 1!

 

  

--- In [email protected] <mailto:H390-VM%40yahoogroups.com> , "Rocky"
<rocsystems@...> wrote:
>
> Harold
> 
> As promised -
> 
> No License and definitely open source

Note that code is copyright by default these days,
and needs an explicit statement to say that it is
being released to the public domain, which is how
I interpret "no license".

> I don't want to put the source on the SixPack-Release 
> just yet, Just for Source version Control purposes, 
> as I have no control over updating that.

The whole point of open source is that others
can update it. It is harmless if others update
it. That doesn't magically cause your official
version to change!

Also note that if it is genuinely public domain,
you can't stop people from including source in
the sixpack should they choose. Or for updating
their own version.

So if you wish to exercise control over it, you'll
need to keep it copyrighted, and have an explicit
licence as to what people can or can't do.

In addition, if your problem is with people making
code changes and then it being difficult to merge
them into the official version, then that's what
"diff3" (included on the sixpack) will do for you.
It is a 3-way diff, one of the greatest achievements
in computer science.

So would it be possible for you to:

1. Put a copyright notice and licence on the code
so that people know where they stand, or else
explicitly release it to the public domain.

2. Have a zip file with ASCII source and put it in
the files area here, with an explicit version
number of the product (even if that is 0.03 or
whatever).

Thanks. Paul.