Re: New home for GPE?

On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 14:50 +0200, Nils Faerber wrote: 
> > but I do
> > ask you to leave the applications I wrote (gpe-screenshot, gpe-life,
> > gpe-mileage) where they are.
> 
> That is not my choice, you have to ask George for that. I have no
> intention to *remove* anything from hh.org.

You misunderstood me on this one. I explicitely don't want anything I
wrote to be hosted on or distributed by linuxtogo.org. If you do it
anyway, it happens without my consent.

> Then let's postpone this, say, for 4 weeks then, OK?

It would be a start and will probably give more people a chance to
speak up, but at the end of the day I'm afraid it doesn't change much.

Sadly, in your original message, you already expressed your intention
to ignore objections if there were "not many".

> PS: Frankly I am pretty annoyed but the tone that is frequently coming
> up from people in the vicinity of hh.org when it comes to discussions
> and problems.

I'm sorry if there was anything wrong with the message I sent, but
offhand I can't think of anything other than bringing up some of
the tiny details that you apparently did not want to become public.

If you had had nothing to hide you would have complied with the legal
requirements in the first place. It's funny how quickly the provisional
"Impressum" (imprint) showed up on linuxtogo.org. Also you would have
made the connections of linuxtogo.org to you personally and to
kernel concepts GbR apparent in your original message.

> So I formulated my proposal a little more decisive. But I want
> to stress that I explicitely asked for comments.
> It is impolite to then say that those suggestion will not be heard or
> considered anyway!

I'm afraid you forget to mention that your "proposal" was sent only
after the fact. It doesn't seem likely to me that you will actually
listen to objections against something that has already been done
for the most part.

gpe.linuxtogo.org was already live (it still is) and it's probably just
a matter of importing the CVS snapshot Florian took the morning before
you sent your original message to complete things (apart from the usual
sed scripts and turning on the new mailing list).

In his latest message to gpe@, Florian makes it very clear that it's all
about control. You assert that GPE as a whole is your project, and want
to have your project under your control on a platform you control.

Many of the events that happened earlier this year suddenly make a lot
of sense, most importantly the pressure that was applied on various GPE
contributors to re-license their code under LGPL which allows linking
against non-free applications.

You have lost a lot of credibility and will have a hard time to convince
at least me, and hopefully others as well, that the reason behind this
is not solely to get the GPE project under your control.

I urge all present and past GPE contributors to carefully (re-)consider
the current situation and express their opinion. Speak up, say what you
think!


Regards,

Rene, still with his GPE hat on and still not speaking for handhelds.org

-- 
Rene Wagner
reenoo at gmx dot de
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