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Re: lynx-dev Re: looking for space for lynx distribution


From: Bela Lubkin
Subject: Re: lynx-dev Re: looking for space for lynx distribution
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 18:07:08 -0800

> On Fri, 22 Jan 1999 address@hidden wrote:
> >On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Bela Lubkin wrote:
> >>As one of those contributors, I'll make the following additional points:
> >>
> >>  *)  If you make this change, I won't be contributing any more code.
> >>
> >>  *)  I will think seriously about having any existing code that traces
> >>      back to me *removed* from the source.
> >
> >Umm, you submitted your code, it was already free-sourced, you can't revoke
> >it.
> 
> Sorry.. I meant to state that more as a (semi-rhetorical) question.
> 
> Doesn't the GNU license, which Lynx already falls under, mean you can't
> be a "Native American"-giver (meant as a joke) with your source?  Maybe you 
> could submit new revisions that effectively take out your code, that would
> then be accepted..

I said "think seriously", as in, look into issues like that.  But I
don't want to go there.

I've certainly never signed any release forms, which RMS seems to want
when accepting code into *his* GNU projects, like gcc.

The central point was "do not put Lynx under the control of RMS".

>Bela<

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