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I did think about the ethics of posting it or not, and yes, it is a difficult issue, but ultimately decided that since the original author had willfully license

I did think about the ethics of posting it or not, and yes, it is a difficult issue, but ultimately decided that since the original author had willfully licensed and distributed the source code under the GPL the choice to allow distribution of that version had already been made.

helwr 16y ago
Thanks, Henrik
- reemrevnivek 16y ago
  OK, so we've got abelsson, helwr, and Zdenek all aware of what's going on here. What happened? helwr, how do you have instant notification of this stuff? abelsson, how did you get the source code? Did you email him early, get the GPLv2'ed source, and he later thought better of it? Zdenek Kalal/ekalic/zk00006, are you reading this somewhere? Do you know or support the actions of these guys? Regardless of abelsson's right (legally and ethically) to do this, I'd like to know the circumstances of this release before I use something that the author doesn't want used.
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  - abelsson 16y ago
    I was more or less a random passerby. The source zip was posted on his website and I download the file because I found the project somewhat interesting and wanted to examine it. This was before he removed the link to the source. I have been in communication with Zdenek Kalal this morning however and he has requested that I delete the github repo for the time being, which I agreed to do after hearing his reasoning. Though hopefully it'll be back up soon with an official repository - that seems to be his intention, so I am willing to be patient and wait for a bit for him to sort out and set up a real project.
  - helwr 16y ago
    I picked up the original link on Google alert when Zdenek's Youtube video was at 90k views, posted on HN, day later it is at 267k and all over the web. The demo has the strongest wow factor I've seen since Thrun's talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDqzyd7fDRc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDqzyd7fDRc I especially loved the excitement of Czechs: http://twitter.com/#search?q=Algoritmus%20%C4%8Desk%C3%A9ho%20studenta http://twitter.com/#search?q=Algoritmus%20%C4%8Desk%C3%A9ho%... Respekt! And the source.. the source can be made better.

helwr 16y ago

Thanks, Henrik

reemrevnivek 16y ago
OK, so we've got abelsson, helwr, and Zdenek all aware of what's going on here. What happened? helwr, how do you have instant notification of this stuff? abelsson, how did you get the source code? Did you email him early, get the GPLv2'ed source, and he later thought better of it? Zdenek Kalal/ekalic/zk00006, are you reading this somewhere? Do you know or support the actions of these guys? Regardless of abelsson's right (legally and ethically) to do this, I'd like to know the circumstances of this release before I use something that the author doesn't want used.
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- abelsson 16y ago
  I was more or less a random passerby. The source zip was posted on his website and I download the file because I found the project somewhat interesting and wanted to examine it. This was before he removed the link to the source. I have been in communication with Zdenek Kalal this morning however and he has requested that I delete the github repo for the time being, which I agreed to do after hearing his reasoning. Though hopefully it'll be back up soon with an official repository - that seems to be his intention, so I am willing to be patient and wait for a bit for him to sort out and set up a real project.
- helwr 16y ago
  I picked up the original link on Google alert when Zdenek's Youtube video was at 90k views, posted on HN, day later it is at 267k and all over the web. The demo has the strongest wow factor I've seen since Thrun's talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDqzyd7fDRc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDqzyd7fDRc I especially loved the excitement of Czechs: http://twitter.com/#search?q=Algoritmus%20%C4%8Desk%C3%A9ho%20studenta http://twitter.com/#search?q=Algoritmus%20%C4%8Desk%C3%A9ho%... Respekt! And the source.. the source can be made better.