Re: New home for GPE?

Hi,

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

noone is going to ignore voices, but I am going to ignore flames.

> 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.

I really wonder if you would go on like this if someone proposed to move to a
commercial site... say Sourceforge or so.
Maybe you should read a little bit at the LTG website before ranting of if
something is unclear please ask.
We stood up and did the job instead of sitting down and waiting for someone else
doing the work. If you want to volunteer to do the formal stuff for LTG please
do, we are searching for someone else who wants to do this.

> 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).

This sub-domain is active most of the time for several weeks now. Is this a
problem for you? Maybe ask George to check the logs, i make a backup from GPE
CVS from time to time.

> 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.

That's an interesting interpretation.

> 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.

Yeah, we will *steal* all your code and run away! ;-) A small attack of
persecution mania? One of the fundamental ideas of GPE is to have GPL
applications and LGPL libraries. What we currently have is a license chaos i
tried to sort out a little bit. I suppose that the minimum we need to to be
taken serious.

> 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 can live without convincing you, there are better things to waste my power.

> 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!

This opinion we share, it would be very good to come back to a factual
discussion. I just want to step forward...

Greetings

Florian

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