I'm worried. What is this poster's motivation? Their first post starts off by telling/.ers not take IPIX's actions personally. Fair enough. The post then ends by asking us not to get involved personally, which is altogether a different, disingenuous and dangerous thing to write. Their next post appears to provide a useful resource to the community, listing IPIX contact details and shareholders. One of these shareholders is given as the Media One Group (mediaone.com). http://www.ipix.com/about/about.html corroborates this. A quick lookup on http://nsiregistry.com gives us a primary domain server for mediaone.com of ns1.mediaone.net. So mediaone.com and mediaone.net are the same entity. The two posts I have referred to purport to come from signal11@mediaone.net
I don't know what's going on here, but I don't think I much like it.
signal11@mediaone.net has been notified of this reply, so I hope (s)he will soon come and explain themselves. For their sakes, I just hope it's all a big coincidence/cock-up.
This person has misunderstood the intention of the GPL. No-one is compelled to release software under the GPL. If they use it, they are making a conscious decision that their work will be covered by the provisions of the GPL - namely, that it must always be freely available and may never become part of a larger project that is not wholly freely available. If an author released some code and said that anyone could do what they wished with his/her work, noone would complain. Authors releasing under the GPL are merely exercising their right to decide what happens to their work.
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Larry gave a great talk at Linux World on "Perl, the first postmodern computer language". The transcript is here (51kb) on the wall family website.
Their first post starts off by telling
Their next post appears to provide a useful resource to the community, listing IPIX contact details and shareholders.
One of these shareholders is given as the Media One Group (mediaone.com). http://www.ipix.com/about/about.html corroborates this. A quick lookup on http://nsiregistry.com gives us a primary domain server for mediaone.com of ns1.mediaone.net. So mediaone.com and mediaone.net are the same entity.
The two posts I have referred to purport to come from signal11@mediaone.net
I don't know what's going on here, but I don't think I much like it.
signal11@mediaone.net has been notified of this reply, so I hope (s)he will soon come and explain themselves. For their sakes, I just hope it's all a big coincidence/cock-up.
This person has misunderstood the intention of the GPL. No-one is compelled to release software under the GPL. If they use it, they are making a conscious decision that their work will be covered by the provisions of the GPL - namely, that it must always be freely available and may never become part of a larger project that is not wholly freely available.
If an author released some code and said that anyone could do what they wished with his/her work, noone would complain. Authors releasing under the GPL are merely exercising their right to decide what happens to their work.