RE: RE: CGIDEV2

[Don <dr2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Frankly, it sounds like a good idea to me...Soundoff at COMMON sounds good 
starting place....or perhaps the "town hall" meeting...we could do with a 
little less preaching to the choir and a little more listening to the 
clients...:)



On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, Nathan Andelin wrote:

> Walden,
>
> Giovanni recently clarified on yahoo groups that the
> open source license he wrote and published at
> http://www-922.ibm.com/easy400p/easy400pos.html
> applied to other software provided on the site, but
> not to CGIDEV2, which I'm sure was was a surprise to a
> lot of people.
>
> He promoted CGIDEV2 as "open source", but now
> acknowledges that it wasn't.  Just before his
> retirement from IBM, Giovanni requested that IBM
> release the product as open source, but his request
> was refused.  He indicated that he was reprimanded by
> an IBM attorney, for allowing Mel to fix and enhance
> the product after leaving IBM, and for distributing
> Mel's changes.
>
> Giovanni is now calling for a popular uprising to
> pressure IBM into releasing its copyright.  Who knows
> what the folks at IBM CTC may be thinking, other than
> feeling reluctant to relinquish their rights.
>
> Nathan M. Andelin
>
>
> --- "Walden H. Leverich" <WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> > > I did then ask the owner of CGIDEV2, the IBM CTC
> > Rochester,
> > > to let me redistribute CGIDEV2 from my site, in
> > order to
> > > provide future maintenance and enhancements.
> >
> > OK, I'm confused. First, I am NOT a lawyer, but
> > having said that, if you
> > look at the license on the ibm site for CGIDEV2 it's
> > really clear that
> > anyone can modify the code and redistribute both the
> > original and the
> > modified versions. So, what does Giovanni need
> > permission for, and
> > what's IBM withholding. Seems to me Giovanni could
> > just put the code on
> > his site and he'd be doing nothing wrong.
> >
> > -Walden
> >
> > ------------
> > Walden H Leverich III
> > Tech Software
> > (516) 627-3800 x11
> > WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > http://www.TechSoftInc.com
> >
> > Quiquid latine dictum sit altum viditur.
> > (Whatever is said in Latin seems profound.)
>
>
>
>
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