[MonoDevelop] Monodevelop brother

[Allan Edwards]

Would someone please explain to me why this fellow cant use other groups 
source code in his IDE?  I thought this was the point of this open 
source stuff.

Christoph Wille wrote:

> I usually do not go public unless I'm close to 100% sure I'm on to 
> something...
> 
> Mike's post clearly has enough evidence that you are using ours as well 
> as someone else's source code. Note that we did not perform an 
> exhaustive comparison, just enough to prove the misappropriation of 
> source code.
> 
> The meat: it is fine with us that you release the code under GPL. 
> However, it is not that you also sell it as a commercial offering. We 
> expect as a courteous act from your side that you take it offline 
> immediately, I don't actually want to get into the issues of you 
> offering it in the first place.
> 
> Closing words: we do not feel like searching your code and telling you 
> where you blatantly used ours or someone else's. We expect that you do 
> the right thing.
> 
> Chris
> Senior Project Wrangler, #develop
> 
> At 10:02 AM 6/28/2004, J.M.Piulachs [Sand!] wrote:
> 
>> Hi ,
>>
>> Sure , you can look at the source code , I have taken lots of ideas from
>> sharpdevelop , Eclipse and Visual Studio but I have not used source code
>> from any of this products.
>>
>> Some interfaces may have property names , methods or comments similar 
>> to SD
>> or VS (its normal , I have learnt form them) .If you find any copyrighted
>> code I will remove it for sure , but please don't acuse me of using
>> copyrighted code before even analize the code.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Christoph Wille" <christophw@alphasierrapapa.com>
>> To: "J.M.Piulachs [Sand!]" <jmarc.piulachs@esand.net>;
>> <monodevelop-list@lists.ximian.com>
>> Cc: <mike@icsharpcode.net>; "Bernhard Spuida" <bernhard@icsharpcode.net>
>> Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 9:44 AM
>> Subject: Re: [MonoDevelop] Monodevelop brother
>>
>>
>> > We (the #develop team) will be looking at it very closely. Judging from
>> the
>> > cursory look I had so far, it looks quite similar to large extents of
>> > #develop codebase - Mike will have a closer look at the source code 
>> level,
>> > and then we will know for sure.
>> >
>> > If you were offering it GPL only, we wouldn't even comment - 
>> however, you
>> > offer it dual-licensed which you cannot do if you are not the copyright
>> > owner. You will understand that we do not necessarily like that idea 
>> that
>> > someone *might* unlawfully sell our work.
>> >
>> > Chris
>> > Senior Project Wrangler
>> >
>> >
>> > At 09:15 AM 6/28/2004, J.M.Piulachs [Sand!] wrote:
>> > >Hi all,
>> > >
>> > >First of all Monodevelop is an amaizing product , the monodevelop
>> community
>> > >is doing a great job!
>> > >
>> > >I write to let you know that I have started a new .net based open 
>> source
>> IDE
>> > >inspired by VS/Eclipse. you can fine more information about SDE 
>> (our ide)
>> at
>> > >http://sde.esand.net/.
>> > >
>> > >More than a product by itself SDE is a framework to create complex
>> > >development environments. This product was born to solve our own 
>> internal
>> > >interface needs .Our intention was to focus our effors creating 
>> 'editing
>> > >based products' (like metadata editors , software modeling tools ,
>> designers
>> > >, etc..)  and reuse and IDE like evironment .It was designed with
>> > >extensibility in mind and thus relies on plug-ins and compiler 
>> bindings
>> more
>> > >or less like MonoDevelop . The product has grown and now be have 
>> decided
>> to
>> > >relase under GNU.
>> > >
>> > >It would be greate to share efforts and perhaps we can continue to 
>> have a
>> > >discussion on our two projects and share information and ideas.
>> > >
>> > >Thanks!
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
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> 
> //   Christoph "Brains" Wille
> //       MCSE, MCSD, MCP-IT, CNA
> //
> //   E-Mail:     christophw@alphasierrapapa.com
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