Re: RE: CGIDEV2

> Do people actually still go to Common?

absolutely!
jim


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Skvarenina" <mskvarenina@xxxxxxx>
To: "'Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries'" <web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 10:52 PM
Subject: RE: [WEB400] RE: CGIDEV2


> Do people actually still go to Common?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: web400-bounces+mskvarenina=usa.net@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:web400-bounces+mskvarenina=usa.net@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Don
> Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 8:52 PM
> To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
> Subject: RE: [WEB400] RE: CGIDEV2
>
>
>
> Frankly, it sounds like a good idea to me...Soundoff at COMMON sounds good
> starting place....or perhaps the "town hall" meeting...we could do with a
> little less preaching to the choir and a little more listening to the
> clients...:)
>
>
>
> On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, Nathan Andelin wrote:
>
> > Walden,
> >
> > Giovanni recently clarified on yahoo groups that the
> > open source license he wrote and published at
> > http://www-922.ibm.com/easy400p/easy400pos.html
> > applied to other software provided on the site, but
> > not to CGIDEV2, which I'm sure was was a surprise to a
> > lot of people.
> >
> > He promoted CGIDEV2 as "open source", but now
> > acknowledges that it wasn't.  Just before his
> > retirement from IBM, Giovanni requested that IBM
> > release the product as open source, but his request
> > was refused.  He indicated that he was reprimanded by
> > an IBM attorney, for allowing Mel to fix and enhance
> > the product after leaving IBM, and for distributing
> > Mel's changes.
> >
> > Giovanni is now calling for a popular uprising to
> > pressure IBM into releasing its copyright.  Who knows
> > what the folks at IBM CTC may be thinking, other than
> > feeling reluctant to relinquish their rights.
> >
> > Nathan M. Andelin
> >
> >
> > --- "Walden H. Leverich" <WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> >
> >>> I did then ask the owner of CGIDEV2, the IBM CTC
> >> Rochester,
> >>> to let me redistribute CGIDEV2 from my site, in
> >> order to
> >>> provide future maintenance and enhancements.
> >>
> >> OK, I'm confused. First, I am NOT a lawyer, but
> >> having said that, if you
> >> look at the license on the ibm site for CGIDEV2 it's
> >> really clear that
> >> anyone can modify the code and redistribute both the
> >> original and the
> >> modified versions. So, what does Giovanni need
> >> permission for, and
> >> what's IBM withholding. Seems to me Giovanni could
> >> just put the code on
> >> his site and he'd be doing nothing wrong.
> >>
> >> -Walden
> >>
> >> ------------
> >> Walden H Leverich III
> >> Tech Software
> >> (516) 627-3800 x11
> >> WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> http://www.TechSoftInc.com
> >>
> >> Quiquid latine dictum sit altum viditur.
> >> (Whatever is said in Latin seems profound.)
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >
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