Joerg Schilling ha scritto:
"b.n." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Again, it is entirely possible that Joerg, despite his somehow weird
behaviour, could be right. But I fail to see the strong evidence that
should backup his strong statements.
So you like to tell us that if a few people like to spread a lie, all they need
to do is to create a web of pointers to copies of this lie?
Well, that's exactly what happens everyday. Welcome to the real world. :)
But that's irrelevant to our discussion, because I do not want a "web of
pointers to copies". I want a single pointer to the (hopefully public)
mailing list thread(s) where you discussed with Bloch and you were
attacked by him.
Where is this thread?
A single person who tells the truth seems to have no chance in your world
because people do not make a reality check on statements but just count the
number of copies?
It has all chances possible. It is enough to bring *proof*. Not a
billion copies of proof: just proof. That "number of copies" stuff is
something you put into the discussion and that I never, ever asked for.
It would be easy to check timelines to get an impression of the credibility
of the people around Bloch.
I should mention that Bloch did not get much attention inside Debian with his
hirst attack which started around 2004. The CDDL was accepted by Debian and
nobody complained in February 2005 when I changed the first project from GPL to
CDDL. Nothing happened after I published the first OpenSolaris distribution on
June 17th 2005 - 3 days after the first OpenSolaris source was out. The attacks
from Debian against the CDDL started in September 2005 after the Nexenta distro
(Debian userland on top of Solaris) was published.
A year later but still a week _before_ the "cdrkit project" started, Debian
finally accepted the CDDL as free license. The people from the cdrkit "project"
still claim that the "fork" was done because the CDDL is not free. Do you
believe people who repeatedly contradict themself?
I don't care about "credibility". I care about individual statements.
As far as I have understood, the problem is not CDDL not being free, but
being incompatible with the GPL in the particular build system you
choose for cdrtools. So, I see no contradiction here. Maybe I'm wrong,
but again, we want *proof*.
m.
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