(Fwd) Re: [Braillenote] PulseData In Violation Of The GNU Lesser General Public License, Other Comments About Opening Source/Sp

[Sabahattin Gucukoglu]

Here's the last message on the thread, from the boss.  Well, one of 
them...

Thanks Greg for being quick to inform, was just about to flood the list 
with repeats then.  This one won't have been caught by your filter.

I'll take any of your comments before writing my careful response to 
Jonathan, as he requested.  I will, of course, take him fully up on his 
offer.

Cheers,
Sabahattin

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To:             	Braillenote List <braillenote at list.pulsedata.com>
Subject:        	Re: [Braillenote] PulseData In Violation Of The GNU Lesser
	General	Public License, Other Comments About Opening Source/Specs
From:           	Jonathan Mosen <JonathanM at pulsedata.com>
Date sent:      	Mon, 3 May 2004 16:33:43 +1200
Send reply to:  	Braillenote List <braillenote at list.pulsedata.com>

Hi Sabahattin. When you sent the message to us originally, it eventually
ended up with me, and it most certainly has not been forgotten.

I appreciate the very detailed way that you've outlined this issue and
there is no doubt in my mind that we must take some specific actions in
order to comply with both the spirit and the letter of the LGPL. As will
soon become apparent, the last few months have been extremely busy, but we
must put this issue right.

What we'll be doing shortly is making the source of X-Base as we've 
modified it available for public download from our web site, with changes
clarified in the appropriate manner. There's actually little we had to do
to it, other than fix a memory leak issue and employ some buffering
techniques that we found speed the system up. We're happy, and indeed
legally bound in the spirit of open source, to contribute these changes to
the community of X-Base developers.

We will also find an appropriate place for the LGPL documentation and
ensure that it is included in the next version of KeySoft. But I would
expect we can get the source uploaded there quite soon.

Regarding your more general comments about open source, this is a very
interesting philosophical discussion. I agree with your general sentiment
that the platform must be opened up and we intend to do that. I'm not sure
that I agree that making KeySoft itself open source is the best approach.
But there are other ways of achieving similar objectives which I think fit
better with the market we're serving and guarantee some consistency of 
user
experience that helps when offering technical support.

I appreciate the message and please feel free to drop me a private message
if you want to kick around the pros and cons of the open source approach.








Jonathan Mosen
BrailleNote Product Marketing Manager
Pulse Data International Ltd

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