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NiaTrue · 08-16-2010, 03:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Snepscheut

Maybe, if you don't consider me an obnoxious poster, I may ask you to think about asking this attorney to try to be a mediator in the community's quest for getting the needed source code and maybe to get everybody on speaking terms again. yours sincerely, Jos.

Jos., dank u. Je bent een echte gentleman (I’m only just learning Dutch, so I apologize if the grammar is off). My colleague doesn’t do mediation, at least not on forums anyway. He might be interested in the intellectual property issues (this is often done pro bono), but do you really think that’s necessary?

I might be a Pollyanna (I realize she is abhorred by the Dutch), but they’ve released the code! And although two posters are saying it isn’t complete, enTourage is checking to be sure. Why not wait for their response? Dontpanic says they’ll have one within 24 hours. It could be an oversight, or (*gasp*) jcase could be wrong. If neither of those is the case, there’s a lot that can be done, but you realize even successful intellectual property cases for something as seemingly simple as the GPL could take a year or more to resolve. Such a long fight would be no small price to pay for the folks who wrote the source code, and if it were me, I’d wait forever. BUT, if you want the code to create apps, do you really want to wait a year for it—by which time a victory would be irrelevant?