Just a gentle prod Alex, not an accusation:-)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Alex Martin
> Sent: 28 June 2005 09:40
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: d-cache software license?
>
> Hi John,
>
> Probably offtopic but "stealing" generally
> implies denying
> someone of their property. If you mean I intend to violate someones
> copyright...that's not the case...but the GPL, for instance,
> says I have the right to ask for the source code and
> responsibilities (and I have to accept that licence if I wish
> to incorporate someone elses GPL code in my own)...I should
> add that I done this many times before and have generally
> offered my contributions back to the project maintainers.
>
> cheers,
> Alex
>
>
>
> On Monday 27 June 2005 21:39, Gordon, JC (John) wrote:
> > I see Alex, you want the source so that you can steal it!
> Even if it
> > is for the greater good, I don't think this is that strong an
> > argument:-)
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > John
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Testbed Support for GridPP member institutes
> > > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Alex Martin
> > > Sent: 27 June 2005 15:19
> > > To: [log in to unmask]
> > > Subject: Re: d-cache software license?
> > >
> > > On Monday 27 June 2005 09:54, Gordon, JC (John) wrote:
> > > > The main requirement that is left unsatisfied is that of
> > >
> > > folk who wish
> > >
> > > > to eyeball all code they run on their systems. I don't
> > >
> > > think this should
> > >
> > > > be left to individual sysadmins. All of our middleware
> > >
> > > should be subject
> > >
> > > > to external security review, gLite: for example. I have no
> > >
> > > solution to
> > >
> > > > this.
> > >
> > > Hi John,
> > > just to clarify, the reason, I requested
> the source
> > > code was so that I could look into hacking together a
> simple SRM
> > > to POSIX filesystem solution, in principle this must be
> a subset of
> > > the supported solutions and though it was something I
> could sortout
> > > given the existing codebase. Obviously, I would much
> prefer that
> > > someone else wrote and supported this.
> > >
> > > cheers,
> > > Alex
> > >
> > >
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