[sldev] What is the point of firstlook and giving feedback to LL

[Henri Beauchamp]

On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 13:37:22 -0400, Dante Tucker wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Henri Beauchamp <sldev at free.fr> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:51:10 -0700, Harold Brown wrote:
> >
> >
> > So, what's the matter ?
> >
> 
> What is the matter is the patches you submit are not going to be applyed to
> there GPL sources. So GPL sources + GPL patches = GPL sources may be true.
> But also completely unrelated to you submiting a patch to jira.

When you cite someone's email, please do it properly. The "What's the matter"
question was following the phrase in which I demonstrated that I by submitting
patches to the JIRA I _did_ implicitely agree to LL's license agreement.

So, the question stands: what's the matter, as I did agree already, even if
not in the form of a written paper ?


On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:54:21 +0000, Matthew Dowd wrote:

> Unfortunately your wish for anonymity is precisely why LL can't accept your
> patches. If they did accept "Henri Beauchamp"'s patches, and negotiated a
> commercial license such as an updated CSI viewer, and then some RL French
> person claimed that LL had distributed code under a non-GPL license which
> they were not entitled to distribute under a non-GPL license, they would
> have no evidence to defend themselves to the contrary which would stand
> up in court.

Yes, they have !!!  My IP address is enough an evidence, and should LL
need to find out who I trully am for whatever legal issue, they could ask
a French judge who would in turn order my ISP to give away my true identity.

But until then, and by the "Informatique et Liberté" Law, LL does not need
any such private information from me, and I am well entitled not to give
it away.

Amuzingly, this thread gets closer to another on this list, about IP and
privacy... :-D

Henri.