Open Source: you're doing it wrong - the Pyjamas hijack

[Adrian Hunt]

Hi Ian,

Well there you have me... You release code under a license, you bound by it even if later you think better of it...  Seller be ware!!!!!!

> From: ian.g.kelly at gmail.com
> Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 16:59:00 -0600
> Subject: Re: Open Source: you're doing it wrong - the Pyjamas hijack
> To: cyborgv2 at hotmail.com
> 
> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Adrian Hunt <cyborgv2 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi ya,
> >
> > Not to be confrontative but just because a project is open-source, it
> > doesn't mean IP is open too!! The original idea is still property of the
> > originator... It just has the global community adding their own IP and
> > fixes.  This is a core of corporate contracts ensuring that a developers IP
> > become freely usable by the company they work for at the time, but their IP
> > is still their IP.
> 
> Luke Leighton was not the originator of the project.  James Tauber
> was, and his original code was a port of Google Web Toolkit.  Even if
> Luke could somehow be considered the "owner" of the project, it was
> released under the Apache License, which includes a "/perpetual/,
> worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, /irrevocable/
> copyright license to reproduce, /prepare Derivative Works of/,
> publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute the
> Work and such Derivative Works".  I don't agree with what Anthony has
> done, but I don't see how it violates the license in any way or how
> Luke has any possible recourse through IP claims.
 		 	   		  
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