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craigix said:
Sigh, now people are probably going to blame me for you throwing massive fuel on this. I'm not ever going to get to see this source, am I ;P
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Sigh, now people are probably going to blame me for you throwing massive fuel on this. I'm not ever going to get to see this source, am I ;P
Exophase said:
No, I meant legal actions. Back in the GP2X days, someone (from Germany) wanted to sue GPH for not releasing the sourcecode.
But he never even ASKED them to release the sourcecode. They had no idea about it, so they didn't include a written offer.
Once I told them about how GPL works and what they need to do, everything settled down.
Though I clearly didn't like how the guy started a lawsuit before even trying to ask them.
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Exophase
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Sure, that crap is annoying. We don't need any silly GPL policing here. I just want to see the source and they're distributing this license file saying that it's supposed to be offered to me.
Just so it's clear, the "written offer" part I pasted is an offer that the party distributing the program is supposed to make, not something someone who wants the source is supposed to propose. If you don't distribute the source with the program you have to make it clear how to contact someone to get it. I'm not just blowing smoke here, I wanted source, so I looked for this offer to find who to contact, then I looked at the linked websites and I didn't find anything. They might not be aware that they're supposed to be doing this, if I let them know maybe it'll prevent other people from looking for it like I did.
Just so it's clear, the "written offer" part I pasted is an offer that the party distributing the program is supposed to make, not something someone who wants the source is supposed to propose. If you don't distribute the source with the program you have to make it clear how to contact someone to get it. I'm not just blowing smoke here, I wanted source, so I looked for this offer to find who to contact, then I looked at the linked websites and I didn't find anything. They might not be aware that they're supposed to be doing this, if I let them know maybe it'll prevent other people from looking for it like I did.
Exophase said:
Yep. I know. Have you tried contacting Franxis already?
According to the donate button, it's franxism@gmail.com
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Exophase
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No, I was hoping he'd see this thread. Has he really left? >_>
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id6490 said:
See what I mean?
I swear some of the people posting to this thread have no idea what the thread is about and what Exo is trying to obtain, they are just seeing it as some kind of imagined attack on Franxis.
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Exophase
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Oh, I guess you don't have me on ignore then ;p I must have misunderstood what you said in another topic, or you took me off. Sorry for assuming that.
Okay, I'll e-mail him, we'll see if he tears me's mad at me for it ^^
Are we failing the Turing Test here or what?
Okay, I'll e-mail him, we'll see if he tears me's mad at me for it ^^
id6490 said:
Are we failing the Turing Test here or what?
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Franxis is in a journey. It's possible that you wait some days/week to receive a email of Franxis.
Exophase
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Nintiendo1Spain said:
Should I e-mail Chui?
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As far as I understand, under the GPL the only action that is really mandatory is sending the source code after a private request from someone that obtained a copy in binary form. There is no need to put the code in some public website or something. I think that the question that tackles with this problem is this one: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#WhatDoesWrittenOfferValid
In this way, Exophase has the right to ask for the Mame4all code in private, and after that he can publish the code in his website.
But the fact is that in the free and open source communities, the normal behavior is that the authors publish the source code in a public location, and in this way there is no need of any private request. I support this approach, and then I kindly ask to the Mame4all authors to put their code in a public website, even if I think that they are not really committed to this.
In this way, Exophase has the right to ask for the Mame4all code in private, and after that he can publish the code in his website.
But the fact is that in the free and open source communities, the normal behavior is that the authors publish the source code in a public location, and in this way there is no need of any private request. I support this approach, and then I kindly ask to the Mame4all authors to put their code in a public website, even if I think that they are not really committed to this.
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sbock said:
Except Pcsx4all, apparently (for the time being). I did check the site you know.
I don't really get what your problem is. If I didn't ask for the source publicly then all the other people who want to see it wouldn't have gotten it. I explain the GPL's requirements because they may not have understood them, kinda like how a lot of people here don't understand them (and I don't blame them, GPL is confusing and the license text is full of preachy pretentious philosophical nonsense before you even get to the terms of the license itself)
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As a gp32spain member I am finding some people in this place very hostile towards non-pandora lovers. You should relax and wait for franxis to release the code. This is amateur coding, not everyone has the time to release everything properly, it happened before with lots of coders and most of them released the final product's code when it was cleaned up.
Regarding to pandora, most people is focused on gph consoles because they are more widespread than pandora/dingoo even if you try to hide that. Gp32spain contest wasm't even properly announced on this open source entertainment forum, which is a shame.
Regarding to pandora, most people is focused on gph consoles because they are more widespread than pandora/dingoo even if you try to hide that. Gp32spain contest wasm't even properly announced on this open source entertainment forum, which is a shame.
Xabier said:
Could we please stop those weird WIZ / Caanoo / Pandora-bitchings?
Yes, in Spain more people might be focused on GPH consoles - whereas here the Pandora gets more activity.
Everyone chooses his own favourite system, no need to bitch around.
Eh?
There was the Announcement, then an update followed by a reminder and finally there were the results.
How much more coverage would you expect?
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