Re: fvwm(1): replace GPL-licensed code, fix bugs and add improvements

On 2026/08/03 17:12, David Uhden Collado wrote:
> Stuart Henderson wrote:
> > On 2026/08/02 23:23, David Uhden Collado wrote:
> > > I separated this work because the provenance and independence of the
> > > replacement implementations require more careful review than ordinary
> > > bug fixes.
> > 
> > What _is_ the provenance of the replacement code implementations?
> > 
> Robert Nation, Tom LaStrange, Charles Hines, Brady Montz, Dan Espen, Steve
> Robbins, Paul Smith, Jason Tibbitts, Dominik Vogt, Bob Woodside, Maciej
> Stachowiak, Greg J. Badros, and Andrew T. Veliath are free to pursue the
> matter through the proper legal channels if they genuinely believe that I
> have infringed their copyright. Since none of them appears to be based in
> Spain, they would also have to establish jurisdiction and pursue the
> corresponding international proceedings.
> 
> A claimant would still need to prove ownership of the specific code at
> issue, identify the allegedly copied expression, demonstrate actual
> infringement rather than mere functional similarity, and establish
> measurable damages caused by my non-commercial work. Unsupported accusations
> and speculative threats are not evidence.
> 
> I have no intention of being intimidated into abandoning independently
> rewritten code merely because somebody invokes the GPL without demonstrating
> what was supposedly copied, who owns it, or what legally actionable harm
> occurred. If anyone believes they have a valid claim, they can present it
> formally and prove it.

Huh? Just asking where the code in your jumbo diff came from.
I was hoping for something like "I wrote it myself" (although half
expecting "some LLM wrote it").

This very defensive rules-lawyer-ish statement does not fill me
with confidence that this is code which OpenBSD can incorporate.


Also there's your earlier "In order for FVWM to remain in the base
system, a fork must be created and maintained" - well no. It could also
remain how it is now...