[Xlock-develop] xlockmore5.37ALPHA00 released

[David A Bagley]

Hi

xlockmore-5.37ALPHA00 as of 5 December 2011, the maintained version of xlock

5.37ALPHA00
  life3d mode: rhombic dodecahedral life internal format now uses even cells
    instead of odd (thought to be more straighforward as (0, 0, 0) is a cell).
  biof mode: removed as I now see it has a GNU copyright, created a patch
    xlockmore-$VERSION+gnu.tar.bz2


Taking a step backwards so far and removing biof mode.
I do not plan to update the gnu patch every release but only when
it needs it.   Any problem patching or ideas to make it simpler let me know.
(Look at the README in there and set VERSION to 5.37ALPHA00 to try out.)

Pardon the life3d update, just keeping it in sync with my java gui.

I will probably make a main release before the new year.  So far nothing else planned
though it would be nice to add a new mode...  :)
--
Cheers,
 /X\  David A. Bagley
(( X  bagleyd at tux.org     http://www.tux.org/~bagleyd/
 \X/  xlockmore and more



> 
> Hi Eric, Ciaran, 
> 
> It looks like I may have to remove biof.c from the xlockmore package.I was
> not aware of GNU copyright... it is not compatible with BSD copyright.  BSD is
> more like "yeah go and try to make money off of it... but its free and keep
> the authorship on the source code".
> 
> Regards,
> David
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > thanks for asking.
> > 
> > For my own work on this, the goal was to "reuse" (parts of) the  
> > original code and put the same license as the rest of xlockmore on the  
> > added/changed parts. I'm not a lawyer or a license expert. Honestly I  
> > don't care on the final license as soon as no one makes money on it,  
> > the source is provided freely, and credit is given to me for the  
> > changes (I'm quite happy to be part of this sw). I would be  
> > disappointed if the module should be removed based on this  
> > misunderstanding.
> > I have added David Bagley (the maintainer of xlockmore) in the Cc,  
> > maybe you should also ask for his opinion.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> >          Eric Lassauge <lassauge at users.sf.net>
> > 
> > 
> > Ciaran Farrell <cfarrell at suse.de> a écrit :
> > 
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> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > while auditing xlockmore for linux (specifically, SUSE Linux), I came
> > > across the file biof.c. This file has two license statements made
> > > (chronologically) in 2002 and 2005. The 2002 copyright is hk at dgmr.nl
> > > and tugrul at galatali.com (who ported to linux). The 2002 license is
> > > GPL-2.0 (i.e. GNU General Public License version 2 "only").
> > >
> > > E. Lassauge added a copyright in 2005 and also added an X11-type license.
> > >
> > > What is not clear is the effect of what happened in 2005. Is this
> > > effectively a license change of the entire file (i.e. hk at dgmr.nl and
> > > tugrul at galatali.com encouraged it) or are we to understand this as
> > > meaning that only the code added by E Lassauge in 2005 is X11 licensed
> > > (effectively meaning that we are dealing with a derived work of the
> > > original code)?
> > >
> > > I would very much appreciate any help, information or guidance you can
> > > give me.
> > >
> > > Cíaran Farrell
> > > SUSE Linux
> > >
> > >> /* Copyright (c) E. Lassauge, 2005. */
> > >>
> > >> /* * Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software
> > >> and its * documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby
> > >> granted, * provided that the above copyright notice appear in all
> > >> copies and that * both that copyright notice and this permission
> > >> notice appear in * supporting documentation. * * This file is
> > >> provided AS IS with no warranties of any kind.  The author * shall
> > >> have no liability with respect to the infringement of copyrights, *
> > >> trade secrets or any patents by this file or any part thereof.  In
> > >> no * event will the author be liable for any lost revenue or
> > >> profits or * other special, indirect and consequential damages. * *
> > >> The original code is from the really slick screensaver series *
> > >> (see below the original header) * * Eric Lassauge  (Feb-15-2005)
> > >> <lassauge AT users.sourceforge.net> * * REVISION HISTORY: * * -
> > >> Eric Lassauge  (Feb-15-2005) <lassauge AT users.sourceforge.net> *
> > >> Ported the rss_glx version to xlockmore (added random color +
> > >> wireframe + fps) */
> > >>
> > >> /* * Copyright (C) 2002  <hk at dgmr.nl> * Ported to Linux by Tugrul
> > >> Galatali <tugrul at galatali.com> * * BioF is free software; you can
> > >> redistribute it and/or modify * it under the terms of the GNU
> > >> General Public License version 2 as * published by the Free
> > >> Software Foundation. * * BioF is distributed in the hope that it
> > >> will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the
> > >> implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
> > >> PURPOSE.  See the * GNU General Public License for more details. *
> > >> * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
> > >> License * along with this program; if not, write to the Free
> > >> Software * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA
> > >> 02111-1307  USA */
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> > 
> > 
> 
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