FloodBot status

[ljlbox at tiscali.it]

Il 05.02.2014 21:54 C de-Avillez ha scritto:

> On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 02:54:25 +0100
> ljlbox at tiscali.it [2]wrote:
>
>> Il 05.02.2014 02:27 Alan Bell ha scritto:
>>
>>> On 05/02/14 00:32, ljlbox at tiscali.it [1] [1]wrote:
>
>>>> I would like to point out that the FloodBot code is under my
>>>> exclusive copyright, it has never been licensed for 
>>>> redistribution,
>>>> and any license text it may even have contained was provisional 
>>>> and
>>>> only meant for internal use.
>>> it does indeed have a GPLv2 boilerplate at the top of it.
>> It does, but that's because the repository was MEANT for eventually
>> making the code public and open source, AFTER people had worked on 
>> it.
>> It was never meant as a "release" to anyone, nevermind the public at
>> large, of GPLv2 code. The Launchpad metadata clearly state
>> "proprietary".
>
> You are confusing Launchpad's wording with the code's wording. But 
> this
> is, anyway, irrelevant given your clear statement you consider the 
> code
> proprietary.

I am pretty sure I'm not confusing anything. I can put a GPL header on
code that resides on my own hard drive at home, but that doesn't make 
it
GPL even if I let others see the code under an understanding they won't
share it, and will consider it closed source (which a private project
on Launchpad, with a proprietary tag, and understanding with the 
parties
involved, certainly does).

I think there was never any doubt that the code was proprietary, from 
any
party involved, since a lot of the issues surrounding the FloodBots 
have,
in fact, been about people complaining about how closed source they 
were,
and wanting them to be opened up.

I hope there is not, and there will not be, an understanding from any
party that my code is "technically" open source, but as a favor, you 
are
not going to use it since I stated I consider it proprietary.
That would be a very funny thought, and clearly inaccurate.


> [snip]


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