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Good. I had reason to make some small commits to simh in the last couple years. I personally had no major issue, but did find the behavior of the maintainer Ma
by fargle 4y ago
Good.
I had reason to make some small commits to simh in the last couple years. I personally had no major issue, but did find the behavior of the maintainer Mark Pizzolato a bit odd, overbearing, over-focused on "users' running "officially" supported configs, etc. No matter - my PR was accepted, as were many others.
But it gave me real pause when I noticed how another PR that I would have loved to see (from a total stranger to btw.) went. https://github.com/simh/simh/pull/775 https://github.com/simh/simh/pull/775 and https://github.com/simh/simh/issues/1093 https://github.com/simh/simh/issues/1093. So that was a bit of a sign.
But this license baloney (see https://github.com/simh/simh/blob/master/LICENSE.txt https://github.com/simh/simh/blob/master/LICENSE.txt) he tried to pull is just crazy. I'm personally irritated enough about the stewardship of my dumb 2 line fix that I'll spend 30 seconds writing this. I expect my contributions to be "in = out" under the existing X11 license. Period.
Good. This is a perfect case for a "good" fork. I wish the new Open-SIMH group the best and I suspect and hope that this will invigorate the development of what is an awesome and important part of computer history.