> >>
> >> i think Joachim raises a very good point. if it's going to be
> >> released
> >> with OpenBeOS, i think maybe it would be a good place to have
> >> a central database. it's seems quite silly to me to have different
> >> places
> >> to send bugs for every single preferences panel and daemon.
> > > doesn't
> >> really look much like a unified effort and it may detour people
> > > from
> >> filing
> >> bugs.
> >
> >The MDR is *not* a division of OBOS. We allow it to be shipped with
> >OpenBeOS and support OBOS's efforts, but it fundamentally a
> > different
> >pieve of code.
> >-Nathan
>
> I love MDR, but this concerns me.
>
> I could say "everything I write is *my* code, but I will allow it to
> be
> shipped with OpenBeOS"
>
> I then go and write a hefty chunk of the kernel, and after a few
> months
> /years I decide I don't want OpenBeOS to use it anymore.
>
> I think that OpenBeOS code and software, should be OpenBeOS code and
> software, unless its GPL.
I could also say that everything you've ever written is *my* code, just
because I like it. While you may let me use it, and even support my
efforts, at no point does your code become mine.
MDR was started long before OBOS was, or even before Palm bought Be. As
a replacement for a BeOS component, we thought it would be helpful to
OBOS if we made it available. We have. But it is *still* our product.
Besides, it's under the BSD license. We can't take it away. As long as
you give us credit for it, you may absolutely anything you like with
our code.
-Nathan
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