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

[Alexander Shulgin]

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 11:59, Sylvain Beucler <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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 :)

Anyway, I'd suggest moving offlist for such discussions. ;)