[Scummvm-devel] P800 port - what steps should we take now?

Joost Peters j at 7fc1.org
Fri Dec 12 05:29:05 CET 2003


Max Horn heeft op donderdag, 11 dec 2003 om 20:28 (Europe/Amsterdam) 
het volgende geschreven:

> So... only David responded... here are some things I plan on doing, 
> and some things I hope others might do. I'll wait a bit with this in 
> case somebody (e.g. Endy) wants to shout "no" or make any other 
> comment... :-)
>
> 1) I already did this, I changed our link to the P800 page to clearly 
> state that it is in violation of our license.
>
> 2) We should send a threatening mail to the guy, demanding that he 
> release the source code now (we could also ask him to just close that 
> part of htis web page, but strictly spoken that doesn't fix the 
> license violation since his binary is already in wide circulation)
>
> 3) Maybe somebody (ideally, somebody in sweden :-) could phone him on 
> our behalf. If nobody is found, I could try this.
>
> 4) We should post a news item
>
> 5) We might want to inform the news (although I think we should give 
> him 2 more days or so with this, maybe), including Slashdot and 
> anything else we can think of
>
> 6) We might want to tell the FSF, too, just in case. Again, maybe 
> after giving the guy one last chance to react.
>
7) Lynch Mob!! (oh, wait..this isn't IRC.. ;))





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