Re: fwd -- Re: LYNX-DEV OS/2 blowoff

[Bela Lubkin]

> > You did not reply to my previous query.
> > 
> > There is now a live discussion in the Lynx developers' list on the
> > subject: is Derek J. Decker violating the GNU Public License under which
> > current Lynx versions are developed and distributed?
> 
> The answer to that question is no. The sources thatI started from were 2-4-1,
> and were never covered by the GPL or any other license agreement.  

2-4-1 was/is covered by the University of Kansas's copyright statements.
Those statements constitute some sort of a license (but I am not a
lawyer...).  Also, according to Foteos Macrides, the GPL *was* in effect
by that point.

> > You are advised to join the discussion before it gets really ugly.
> 
> Enough has been forwarded to me to see that ugliness has ensued.  It is 
> because of this type of ugliness that I do not subscribe to the list, and
> do not wish contact with the rest of the Lynx community.

This argument is circular.  The ugliness has come about *because* you
avoid contact with the Lynx community.

Someone posted to the list several messages you had posted on USENET
about the development of Lynx/2, in which (I interpret) you were
boasting about ways in which Lynx/2 was better than Lynx (tables, Java,
etc.) and that you would incorporate other more recent Lynx features but
do so "better" than the Lynx developers.  This fosters the impression
that you have an axe to grind with the Lynx community.  Well, whatever
it was was at least 3 years ago.  Bury it.

You're being invited to rejoin the Lynx community.  Several other ports
have recently been incorporated into the mainline (DOS-32 and Windows,
in particular).  If your work was integrated into the mainline, you
would be able to spend your Lynx time on areas for which you are
uniquely qualified, such as perhaps Java integration, tables, etc.,
instead of having to reinvent the wheel on things like frames
workarounds.  (Also, if you have been incorporating *any* new code since
the GPL was first applied to Lynx, then you are certainly violating the
GPL.  To avoid that, you truly must reinvent all those wheels yourself.)

>Bela<
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