Josef 'Jupp' SCHUGT wrote: > Hi! > > At Sat, 07 May 2005 14:33:00 +0300, Ilias Lazaridis wrote. i did not wrote that. you should quote more precisely. > Next month's National Geographic comes with a feature on a recently > re-discovered way of directly connecting people: privat e-mail. It this censorship case affects the whole ruby community. It's sad that you did not detect this. > will also contain an article about firefighters complaining that their > work has become harder after a new kind of leisure persuit has come > into vogue called 'flame wars'. I'm not intrested in flame wars. Just in efficient system evolution [Ruby] > Besides that: Even the GPL only requires that one is given access to > the source of the program one is actually provided with. As long as > you are not provided with an executable generated from the repository > it is nice if the author provices access to the repository but he hes > the right to decide not to do it. I don't care what the GPL says. I care what rationality implies [confirmed by status-quo] Open Source Product - Open Source Open Source Project - Open Code Repository > Note that Open Source licenses *explicitly* allow to create derived > works. So if one does not agree by the way in which a project evolves > one always has the freedom to write one's own project derived from it. I'm not intrested to create a derivative work of "Og". I'm intrested in contributing the changes which I nead. If this is not possibly, I try with the next persistency-system. If I fail again, I'll implement an own one. .. -- http://lazaridis.com