RE: RE: CGIDEV2

Good point, Walden.  Giovanni offered and promoted
CGIDEV2 under an "open source" license at his IBM Web
site, which makes it hard for IBM to sustain an
exclusive claim to it.

On the other hand, Giovanni later indicated that IBM
refused his request to offer an "open source" license
for CGIDEV2, that an IBM attorney is miffed, and that
he was unprepared for an "IBM vs. Giovanni" battle in
court.

Giovanni recently acknowledged IBM's control over
CGIDEV2.  I got the impression that he felt he went
out on a limb by including CGIDEV2 in the open source
license, but no longer had control over his former Web
site, so he couldn't change the wording.

It seems to me that Giovanni and a lot of users are
counting on IBM to release CGIDEV2 under an open
source license.  

Who knows what the folks at IBM CTC think?

Nathan.



--- "Walden H. Leverich" <WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> >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. 
> 
> OK, again, IANAL, but it's really clearly stated on
> an _IBM_ site that:
> 
> "In the following text, 'Easy400 software' means any
> piece of software
> distributed from this Easy400 site."
> 
> And I just downloaded CGIDEV2 from the Easy400 site.
> So AFAIC, CGIDEV2
> is open source. I really don't think they could
> argue otherwise. 
> 
> -Walden
> 
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