Re: [XaraXtreme-dev] Ping

["frank gaude'" <tanzen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rob Kendrick wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 08:35 -0800, frank gaude' wrote:
>   
> > Jed Frechette wrote:
> >     
> > > On Thursday 15 February 2007 8:03 am, Charles Moir wrote:
> > >       
> > > > So we still hope and look forward to the time where the community can
> > > > help us develop the product and achieve that original goal to create the
> > > > best graphics product that has ever existed on the Linux (and other)
> > > > platforms. We're still working very hard to make that happen.
> > > >         
> > > This is great to hear.
> > >
> > > I can certainly understand the frustration that I sense in your email 
> > > but I
> > > think Rob is right on all points. I can't foresee a lot of community 
> > > support
> > > as long as you or MAGIX or any future owners of the code can essentially
> > > cripple the project by deciding to halt distribution of the binary.
> > >       
> > Who says it is possible at this point for the "free CDRAW" binary to be 
> > halted?
> >     
>
> Xara own the copyright on it.  Sure, you could continue distributing it
> and infringe their copyright should they remove it.  But that's hardly a
> solution.
>
> The problem boils down to this:  Free software people don't want to
> spend their valuable free time improving somebody else's product in this
> way - especially when Xara *could* pull the plug on the project at any
> moment and make those contributions useless to the author.  *That's*
> their concern.  Many people just won't be interested in helping until
> the problem's solved.
>
> B.
>   
Okay, I wonder if Xara Ltd. would issue a statement that the binary is 
not copyrighted, only the source? I wonder, once a company has released 
a binary as "free", can they ever take it back? Charles, what say you?

frank