RE: RE: CGIDEV2

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
> 
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