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Mark Kirkwood ha scritto: |
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> b.n. wrote: |
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>> (The other is your admittedly elusive attitude to release fully |
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>> details on what happened, both on your webpages and this thread -for |
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>> example, we still have *no* link about the supposed attacks you |
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>> received *before* the relicensing, despite repeated requests for that). |
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>> m. |
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> I think it is in here: |
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> http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/linux-dist.html |
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> specifically (quote): |
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> In fact, this happened around y2004. I received a patch that was |
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> intended to add UTF-8 support to mkisofs. |
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> Unfortunately, the code quality of this patch was lousy. It |
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> tried to incorrectly initialize a structure and it handled only |
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> a few obvious cases. Many important issues with UTF-8 support |
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> have been completely ignored. As a result, I rejected this patch |
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> because I do care about code quality (I still need to be able to |
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> maintain the code in a few years). The people in the Linux |
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> distribution could have fixed the problems and created a useful |
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> solution but they did not do this. |
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> Now these people have been in trouble and needed an excuse for |
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> their behavior. They created the fairy tale that there is a |
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> license problem in cdrtools. They created a network of |
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> "cooperation" and supported some people which created a fork of |
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> cdrtools based on the fairy tale..... |
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I've read that, but |
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1)there is no *reference.* No link to a mailing list thread or such (I |
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don't remember if even the infamous Debian bug where the licensing |
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problem started is linked on Joerg pages, but at least it is easy to |
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find it) -so I don't know if it's true or not. Maybe that' me being a |
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scientist, so I am accustomed to expect at least a literature reference |
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if there is a potentially questionable statement in a scientific paper |
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-but I think it would help to actually see what he is talking about. |
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2)Statements like "now these people have been in trouble and needed an |
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excuse for their behaviour" looks like pure conspiracy theory. Why a |
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patch rejected puts people "in trouble"? Why did they need an "excuse"? |
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There is no logic in that. Such claims require proof. |
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Again, it is entirely possible that Joerg, despite his somehow weird |
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behaviour, could be right. But I fail to see the strong evidence that |
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should backup his strong statements. |
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m. |
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