[MonoDevelop] Monodevelop brother

[Christoph Wille]

If you had read the thread, you would have seen that I haven't objected 
against the use of our code in a GPL application. The various open source 
licenses place certain restrictions on the code reuse.

Chris

At 03:48 PM 6/28/2004, Allan Edwards wrote:
>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!