GameCube Tunneling Software Rivals Clash

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to a Warp Pipe website posting, in which the creator of the GameCube tunneling software alleges that "members of [planned GameCube tunneling alternative] Xlink community have exploited the fact that our source code (previously open source) is still sitting our SourceForge CVS servers." The confusing allegations, eventually shown to be unrelated to the Xlink creators, have ended in the Warp Pipe code declared closed source and removed from SourceForge. However, the Beta of the Warp Pipe online-enabling software for the GameCube, which "...will support residential DSL and Cable broadband with either a router or 2 NIC setup", is still due before the end of the year.

Comments

Exploited?

[PeeweeJD]

I can't see how you can exploit source code out of sourceforge. Isn't sourceforge for sharing source code?

errrr

[truffle]

I'm confused, once something is licensed as open source, doesn't it remain licensed as open source forever?

As such, any versions of Warp Pipe develop would need to be open source, as they would be a derivative wor of the previous open source alpha code?

I'm assuming (it's not fully clear) that the code was in fact open source at some point.

Re:Must be fashionable to declare IP Violations

[calebtucker]

I've been following the warppipe forums, and it seems like Chad, one of the devs, is just acting plain paranoid and childish. He's cited some forum posts as "proof" that they stole his code, but when I read the posts, I didn't see the proof.

Disappointing.

[mcc]

That's too bad. I was going to pick up a BBA to use with Warp Pipe and Kirby's Air Ride when I had some money, but I'm not really interested anymore. At least half the fun of this for me was going to be the opportunity to poke at and help tweak (if there was any way i could) Warp Pipe itself..

Was the Warp Pipe source code EVER, at any point, made available with a GPL license on it? If so, doesn't that mean that if anyone still has that code, that GPL license cannot be revoked, and someone *cough* could put it up on sourceforge and fork it?

This now means we have two competing closed source projects. This annoys me just a little bit, because I suspect that had not Warp Pipe initially announced it was open source, someone would have begun a competing open source project that did the same thing. Instead, Warp Pipe announced as open source, then did this bait-and-switch thing *less than a week before the release of Super Mario Kart*, ensuring no open source project will have even a chance to get *started*.