4 Mar
2011
4 Mar
'11
10:50 a.m.
On Thu, 3 Mar 2011, Tony Duell wrote:
Yes.
And just how am I supposed to do that?
I have had another look at the web page for this emulator this morning.
At that time there was no mention on it (that I could see) of the GPL, or
any mention of the availability of the source code at any point in the
future. So why on earthshould I assume this (fairly large) binary
distibution, of a machine and OS that I don't own, is ever goign to be of
any use to me?
If you look closely when 'RUNNING' the program, you will see a GPL notice ....
So you're saying I have to download a binary-only program and run it on a
machine I don't own under an OS I don't have a license for to see this?
In any case. I don't believe a binary-only
program can be released under
the GPL, certainly not under the GPL that I am familiar with.
Did you ask for the sources, or just jump off on your high horse and take
off down the road? I have, unfortuantely, come to the conclusion
that the main reason people
won't release their source code for free programs written
non-commercially is that they are ashamed of it. And that means I am
unlikely to wanty to trust the binary, even if I can run it.
Tony, you're a jackass. You know this, right?
Olivier(sp?), ignore him. He's a special needs geek and doesn't know how
to behave in polite company.
Yes, that;'s right, ignore me. Until you need a pinout, or a schemaitc,
or a toubleshooting tip, or a ROM dump, or... And then demand them from me.
And I am still trying to work out why Olivier sent me an e-mail message
with a jpeg file attached that he claimed was a pascal program to dump a
ROM from a machine I don't own and have never claimed to own. I never
received a reply when I asked what was (and having a text-only display
makes it rather difficult to display images).
-tony