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The author seems to be violating the GPL with Menuet64? Menuet64 is pretty clearly a derivative work of Menuet32, which is GPL. However, Menuet64 is released un
by cmeacham98 4y ago
The author seems to be violating the GPL with Menuet64? Menuet64 is pretty clearly a derivative work of Menuet32, which is GPL. However, Menuet64 is released under a non-free license.
Originally I believed the author may be the sole author of Menuet32, and thus could relicense to whatever they wanted. However, the release notes (https://www.menuetos.net/relnotes.htm https://www.menuetos.net/relnotes.htm) credit many other authors with their contributions.
- yjftsjthsd-h 4y agoAny chance they required copyright assignment / CLA?
- andai 4y agoDoes anyone know the history or motivation behind this? Wikipedia says "The 64-bit main distribution is now proprietary" implying it used to be free?
- qwertfisch 4y agoNo, M64 was never free, as far as I can tell. I remember stumbling over M32 around 2006, when I was interested in OS development while being a CS student. I kept interest, and some time later a 64 bit version was published, but no source code, unfortunately. The project kept growing a bit, very slowly. Seems like after v1.00 the author lost most interest. So if it is still a prototype work without any commercial usage, it would be great to have it published with source code.
- prmoustache 4y agoWell it depends on the potential agreement with the other authors, I would say it is none of our business if they don't complain about it. Not sure if it becomes "legal" to breach the GPL if original authors die though.
- GekkePrutser 4y agoI also don't really understand the reason for the relicensing. There doesn't seem to be a commercial version available.
- luke2m 4y agoThe author was not happy with their code being used in KolibriOS, a fork. http://board.flatassembler.net/topic.php?p=216272#216272 http://board.flatassembler.net/topic.php?p=216272#216272