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["Alain M." <alainm@...>]

Hi Karl,

Do you speak in behalf of the Kicad devellopers team?

If not, plase take your opinions and do whatever you want with them.

We are here to make group-work, what you are saying is disruptive and 
useless. I am sure that Dick knows all about GPL and he is just not 
willing to see a fork of kicad go into a company program and wee all 
know that GPL or not a fork is not a good thing.

Please, all, we are here to colaborate ;-)

Alain

Karl Schmidt escreveu:
> Dick, enough of this whining. The article on gnu.org is more than an opinion piece - unless 
> you really don't know what/who gnu.org is. While I and others here do appreciate 
> contributions made by all involved, your contributions do not entitle you to the rest of the 
> code base. The GPL license is not revocable. You can take your lines of the code (and only 
> just what you wrote) and do what you want, but you can't take Jean Pierre's code, even if 
> you have modified it, without violating the GPL.
>
> I'm hereby asking Jean Pierre if he could please make it clear to this list if he has ANY 
> intent of turning this package away from GPL for Dick or anyone else. I think all involved 
> should know here and now if this is going to remain an open GPL project or not. I don't 
> think anyone else here is interested in seeing kicad become a proprietary package.
>
> If Dick thinks he can just take the entire code base as his, I'm sure that FSF would help 
> with the legal costs of stopping him. (To donate to FSF see 
> http://www.fsf.org/associate/support_freedom/donate )
>
> FSF has stepped up to the plate before and stopped people from appropriating GPL software 
> for their own ends. The cost of IP litigation is not cheap, so I would recommend Dick to 
> talk to an IP attorney before doing something stupid.
>
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