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First of all, sorry to hear that WiringPi is deprecated, and I would like to thank the author for all the effort he put into this project. When I read his blog

First of all, sorry to hear that WiringPi is deprecated, and I would like to thank the author for all the effort he put into this project. When I read his blog post on his reasoning, I can't help but be reminded of the feud between xscreensaver's author and Debian maintainers. Debian maintainers refused to upgrade the app's version and refused to remove the 'For support contact the author's email' notice. The author's fed up with all the support emails he gets from Debian (outdated) installations' users and put in a message prompt blasting Debian. It was very ugly for both sides. I think that there can be an extension on GPL that says, if you bundle this library and is not using the latest official version from the author, you are not allowed to include the author's contact information. If you insist on bundling the author's email with your outdated software, then you are in violation of GPL. As for people stealing his code. Sorry to hear this. I got nothing except to try to contact EFF.

dogecoinbase 7y ago
I can't help but be reminded of the feud between xscreensaver's author and Debian maintainers. For the curious, the post: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2016/04/i-would-like-debian-to-stop-shipping-xscreensaver/ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2016/04/i-would-like-debian-to-stop... And the instigatory thread: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=819703 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=819703
- CDSlice 7y ago
  Careful, that first link redirects you to a NSFW image coming from HN
  - coleifer 7y ago
    Party-pooper.
  - Gibbon1 7y ago
    If it's not safe for your work, you need a different job.
    - karlp 7y ago
      It may surprise some people on HN, but for most people in the world, changing jobs is a hard thing to do. And yes middle managers can be that petty.
    - rootlocus 7y ago
      If it's safe for your work, you're probably the intended audience.
- steve19 7y ago
  Because jwz appears to have a very short fuse and at one point in time one or a group of users on HN didn't agree with him (as best as I can remember), referrals from HN are redirected to an image of a testicle. Here is a wayback machine link to avoid the image: http://web.archive.org/web/20190810115358/https://www.jwz.org/blog/2016/04/i-would-like-debian-to-stop-shipping-xscreensaver/ http://web.archive.org/web/20190810115358/https://www.jwz.or...
  - jandrese 7y ago
    JWZ has always been opinionated. I remember his epic rants on email client backends and other technical details.
  - Chlorus 7y ago
    lol he's escalated; before he just had text complaining about brogrammers at HN. I've wondered for years what the original beef was.
  - NikkiA 7y ago
    > an image of a testical. It's a 'hairy egg', if you see a testicle that's on you.
    - Dylan16807 7y ago
      What compels you to blatantly lie here?
    - IntelMiner 7y ago
      The intent is pretty blatant
  - dtech 7y ago
    Wow, if you pull shit like that that immediately is 1 point for the other team in whatever beef he had
    - DanBC 7y ago
      Links on HN were generating huge amounts of negative traffic. I don't blame him for having a redirect.
- aidenn0 7y ago
  I never understood what the big deal is about the warning on the lockscreen. I've seen that before and it didn't bother me.
stjohnswarts 7y ago
Yeah but this guy handled it respectfully. He's even releasing a final version. So people can fork it and do what they will. You can't really blame him. 10 years is a long time to maintain something anyway.
zucker42 7y ago
The FSF might also be able and willing to assist with LGPL violations. Unfortunately though this may be a case with circumstantial evidence but no proof. It also often seems that the people who most willing to disregard the (L)GPL are the ones most militantly protective of their proprietary code. It's quite sad that many developers seem to think that way. Adding an extension like that to the GPL may be problematic because it has a clause that allows users to ignore restrictive extensions (as opposed to permissive extensions).
m463 7y ago
I can't help but think maybe: author-project-v3@example.com author-project-2017@example.com

dogecoinbase 7y ago

I can't help but be reminded of the feud between xscreensaver's author and Debian maintainers. For the curious, the post: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2016/04/i-would-like-debian-to-stop-shipping-xscreensaver/ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2016/04/i-would-like-debian-to-stop... And the instigatory thread: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=819703 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=819703

CDSlice 7y ago
Careful, that first link redirects you to a NSFW image coming from HN
- coleifer 7y ago
  Party-pooper.
- Gibbon1 7y ago
  If it's not safe for your work, you need a different job.
  - karlp 7y ago
    It may surprise some people on HN, but for most people in the world, changing jobs is a hard thing to do. And yes middle managers can be that petty.
  - rootlocus 7y ago
    If it's safe for your work, you're probably the intended audience.
steve19 7y ago
Because jwz appears to have a very short fuse and at one point in time one or a group of users on HN didn't agree with him (as best as I can remember), referrals from HN are redirected to an image of a testicle. Here is a wayback machine link to avoid the image: http://web.archive.org/web/20190810115358/https://www.jwz.org/blog/2016/04/i-would-like-debian-to-stop-shipping-xscreensaver/ http://web.archive.org/web/20190810115358/https://www.jwz.or...
- jandrese 7y ago
  JWZ has always been opinionated. I remember his epic rants on email client backends and other technical details.
- Chlorus 7y ago
  lol he's escalated; before he just had text complaining about brogrammers at HN. I've wondered for years what the original beef was.
- NikkiA 7y ago
  > an image of a testical. It's a 'hairy egg', if you see a testicle that's on you.
  - Dylan16807 7y ago
    What compels you to blatantly lie here?
  - IntelMiner 7y ago
    The intent is pretty blatant
- dtech 7y ago
  Wow, if you pull shit like that that immediately is 1 point for the other team in whatever beef he had
  - DanBC 7y ago
    Links on HN were generating huge amounts of negative traffic. I don't blame him for having a redirect.
aidenn0 7y ago
I never understood what the big deal is about the warning on the lockscreen. I've seen that before and it didn't bother me.

stjohnswarts 7y ago

Yeah but this guy handled it respectfully. He's even releasing a final version. So people can fork it and do what they will. You can't really blame him. 10 years is a long time to maintain something anyway.

zucker42 7y ago

The FSF might also be able and willing to assist with LGPL violations. Unfortunately though this may be a case with circumstantial evidence but no proof. It also often seems that the people who most willing to disregard the (L)GPL are the ones most militantly protective of their proprietary code. It's quite sad that many developers seem to think that way. Adding an extension like that to the GPL may be problematic because it has a clause that allows users to ignore restrictive extensions (as opposed to permissive extensions).

m463 7y ago

I can't help but think maybe: author-project-v3@example.com author-project-2017@example.com