Re: [Savannah-register-public] [task #9475] Submission of Eads Time Series Extensions

[Sylvain Beucler]

Mario,

> Please remove the "All riight reserved" statement (It is pointless in
> a free program) and add the full GPL notice as sugessted in
> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html#howto.

It's a good idea, but it's not necessary to remove them (provided it's
otherwise clear that the program is released under the GPL).


> <blockquote>
> You can implement the missing feature yourself and senme a patch. I suppose
> you have the time and the will to contribute to z130 in the very same manner
> as you had the time and the will to search something to criticize of that
> project. Don't you?.
> </blockquote>
> 
> Google takes very little time, much less time than it takes to look at every
> source file for "All Rights Reserved". I am an avid contributor and supporter
> of many open source and free software projects. However, I do not contribute
> to projects without tests or with poor documentation. Until the original
> author (you) invests the time to bring the code up to a baseline, why should
> others? Writing code without decent documentation violates the spirit of
> collaborative software development. You are "philosophically pure" but that
> only gets you so far.

I'm not sure it's worth arguing over such matters, but up to you :)

-- 
Sylvain