Am Freitag, den 19.06.2009, 13:55 +0530 schrieb Rahul Sundaram:
On 06/19/2009 01:41 PM, Christoph Wickert wrote:
> To sum it up: You say you wanted to work together with me, but you did
> not contact me, you did not tell me and you did not send me your ks,
> although you promised to do so. Right?
I made no such promise. I expressed a intend to do so and got busy with
the other things.
Quote:
"I will post the ks file and the image to fedora-devel list a bit
later."
To me this sounds like a promise.
Since there is no big difference between kickstart
files that essentially do the same thing and is so old now that is not
going be useful anymore, I am not even sure why you are so bothered with
it.
I'm not really interested in your file since it based on my work and
hardly differs from it. I just wanted to point out that I *did* try to
cooperate: I provided you my work, I asked for your progress and my mine
was documented in the wiki. Can you say the same for your work?
Neverthless if you wanted it, you could have easily send me a
reminder instead of bringing it up after such a long time.
That was a boomerang. I can say the very same or even better: Before
sending a reminder you should have told me about your plans in first
place.
> My name is at the top of the ks and you hardly can remove a
copyright
> notice.
It is a kickstart file with a bunch of packages and groups and some
simple configuration changes. Hardly something unique enough to be
copyrightable.
I guess the same applies to the Xfce ks and the first thing you did was
to place a copyright notice and your name on it.
Nevertheless AFAICS all you changed is:
> * You replaced slim with gdm because you could not get it working
> * and included PolicyKit-gnome
> This is not really much remixing of my work. Don't you think that my
> name should have been mentioned in the announcement?
I agree it would be been nice to do so but I have already said that in
long offlist mails and IRC conversations. It is not reasonable to
demanding it however since much of what we do is by nature, building on
others work.
But whenever one builds on others work, one credits them. This is what
FOSS is about.
Anyway: Frank is right, complaining does not help, because it doesn't
fix the damage done. So I'm going to stop here.
Rahul
Regards,
Christoph